“It’s not entirely a success” – New Boy by Tracy Chevalier

We defy you to read this without rolling your eyes. What's more, it's publication places it on bookshelves alongside the paperback issue of Ian McEwan's Nutshell (a successful reworking of Hamlet) and Colm Toibin's The House of Names (a successful reworking of Aeschylus' The Oresteia); New Boy suffers inordinately in comparison to both of those books.

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