Dimensions
165 x 241 x 39mm
Trotter, Harding, Anderton and Chase: sounds like a legal conglomerate, according to their wearily sarcastic English master. But in fact they are a quartet of young friends at a Birmingham school and the narrative of 'The Rotters' Club' is about to take them on an unforgettable ride through the surreal landscape of the 1970s.
'The Rotters' Club' is a zestful comedy of schoolchildren in crisis and adults in trauma; a novel in which the personal and the political intersect suddenly and without warning; a memoir of a long-lost era which shows that racism and class warfare could be just as rife in a school common room as on a car manufacturer's shop floor.
Witty, poignant and oddly romantic, 'The Rotters' Club' will do for the 1970s what Jonathan Coe's classic novel 'What A Carve Up!' has already done for the 1980s.
