Too Small for Basketball

 

A darkly comic coming-of-age story set in the 1980s.

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Reviews

‘An affecting ...warm, bittersweet novel, with a haunting, disturbing picture inside’
- Independent on Sunday

‘Suspenseful and sussed - a talented new writer’ - iD magazine

‘A troubled journey into adulthood, beautifully told. Its uncanny ear for the language and internal dialogue of children makes it a delight to read, and the fluid development in style as Marlow becomes older and more aware is masterful. Properly funny, warm-hearted and intensely painful, Kenway’s human storytelling is, at times, reminiscent of John Irving’s. And that is some recommendation’ - Mondo

‘Compelling and magically atmospheric, there’s both laugh-out-loud humour and a dark, brooding undercurrent’ - Nova

‘This immediate and raw novel is full of sharp insights into the problems of school, family and growing up’ - Bookseller

‘Kenway depicts the vicissitudes of classroom abuse with sensitivity, and ably sets out Marlow's subsequent rites of passage into adulthood’ - Time Out

‘An assured novel with a shocking twist amid the laughs’ - Glasgow Herald