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A Boy's Guide to Track and Field
A Boy's Guide to Track and Field
Nov 29, 2025 7:06 PM

Author:Sabrina Broadbent

A Boy's Guide to Track and Field

Lem Gulliver (25, maths teacher), can't seem to leave home. His mother (46, courtroom artist) and step-father (49, AA patrol man), make no secret of the fact that he's become a cuckoo in the nest but since his girlfriend left him for a dog trainer, Lem has returned to his natural state of emotional drift. He can't understand how the people around him manage the plot of a grown-up life.

A Boy's Guide to Track and Field starts at Walthamstow and travels southbound towards Brixton; the reader is swept along with Lem in a review of the past which gradually accelerates into the present.

Reviews

Countless modern novels tackle the breakdown of previously equal relationships between men and women following the arrival of children, but few do it with the sparkle and perception of Broadbent

—— Guardian

This stunning debut... is not to be missed... very funny, absorbing and moving, this comes highly recommended

—— Good Book Guide

Peppered with sharp observations... refreshingly original

—— Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski , Independent on Sunday

Acutely and wittily observed

—— Kate Saunders , The Times

An entertaining take on the mores of contemporary society

—— Time Out

The writing is subtle, funny and refreshingly superior...Recommended for young urbanites

—— Andrew Morrod , Daily Mail

A delightful first novel about a young Indian called Mousumi visiting her sophisticated relations in London ... A coming-of-age story with a difference.

—— Oxford Times

Hugely gratifying in the way that only Cooper can be

—— Mail on Sunday

Triumphantly good

—— The Sunday Times

The prospect of Jilly's return, with a novel set in the glamorous international art world and promising "oodles of bad behaviour, intrigue, passion, tears and laughter", will surely cheer all but the most misanthropic

—— Bookseller

There is enough plot for several novels here (enough sex for dozens), all vividly conveyed in the author's excitable style... Her many fans will not be disappointed

—— Literary Review

This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. A chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world

—— Sunday Sport
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