The world of student life has been neglected by novelists -- until Kevin Sampson’s Freshers.

Kit Hannah is about to start University. He’s funny, clever and popular -- anybody would think he’d relish the prospect. But Kit is harbouring a dark foreboding he dare not share with anyone else. It’s with a heavy heart that he leaves home to begin a new life in Sheffield. At the vast and alienating hall of residence he meets Jinty, a psychology student six years older and much more worldly-wise. She becomes fascinated by Kit. When he wants to be, he’s the life and soul of the party -- and there are lots of parties, lots of sex, lots of very bad behaviour. Kit is naughty, witty and compassionate and everyone wants to be his friend. But more often than not, he withholds that friendship and retreats from the gang. The object of Kit’s affections is Colette -- yet whenever he gets close to her, something seems to hold him back. It is Jinty, and the experience of surviving away from home for the first time, that help him confront himself and beat his demons.