Coming of Age in the uncertain 50's and the over-heated 60's in a seaside town, pinned under the thumb of a selective boys' grammar school, wherein academic success was guaranteed for those who abjured pop music, coffee bars, Vespa scooters and girls with a certain shape. A nostalgic tour-de-force for anyone who agonised over how to find a girlfriend and then what to do about it when you had. Hysterically funny, romantic, assertive, tormented, thoughtful and ultimately self-critical. Autobiographies often don't come this candid - or quite so unashamedly vulgar. Do not read this if the f-word gives you the vapours like Grandma... and the f-word is only the half of it.