The Boyhood of Cain | 
pick#netgalley Pub 13th Feb UK
Hmmm…can‘t decide if this is a very light pick or a so-so. It wasn‘t what I expected and, indeed the chronology was quite different to the blurb.
Daniel, referred to as ‘the boy‘ throughout, attends a school where his father used to be headmaster so feels above everyone else. Then he makes a new friend and a popular teacher shows interest in him, but his mother and father are behaving oddly.
Daniel was very ⬇️
squirrelbrain …unlikeable, his sister was almost invisible and it felt very old-fashioned, almost 60s, despite being set in the late 1990s. By the end, though, I did appreciate Daniel‘s inner voice and understood the way his mind was working, hence the light pick. (edited) 2d
TrishB Great review 👍🏻 1d
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