YOUNG TOM

YOUNG TOM
Forret Reid

The work of Forrest Reid is celebrated for its powerful evocation of childhood, particularly evident in his famous Tom Barber trilogy, which chronicles the growing awareness of a young boy from his early years to his adolescence. With their shared sense of magic and wonder that most adults have lost, all three novels making up the trilogy hang closely together, yet each can be read quite independently of the others. Here, in Young Tom, we meet Tom Barber at his youngest in a tender and understanding study of a sensitive but resolute child.

"His illumination of boyhood, with all its sharpness and shyness, is as fragrant as a water-colour" - Daily Telegraph

Originally published in 1944.

170 pages, paperback