Publisher's Synopsis
Within tension-fuelled tenements on Scottie Rd, amidst back kitchen sink dramas and formative, penniless harshness, the Butlers stoically navigate sixties Liverpool. For Gerrid, the effete and youngest of seven brothers to the matriarchal May, life is manageable through a Tolkien-esque imagination; blithely navigating dockyards of doom, creating playgrounds from dereliction, and wonderstruck by towering chimneys and fireworks of explosive colours and joy-propelling noise. But when reality hits, cruelling delivering childhood from its fairytale, it hits hard. Again and again and again.
