The funniest thing I've read in yonks
By Niamh Brown / Spinebreakers Crew
Ah, SPUD – think Enid Blyton’s tales of boarding school bliss in 1930s Britain, but not.
Yes, there are midnight feasts, pranks, afternoons swimming in the sun and spiffy games of cricket – but this isn’t the tale of a girl living it up in the Home Counties when your granny was young.
SPUD follows 13-year-old John “Spud” Milton in his first year at an exclusive South African boarding school as Apartheid crumbles. There’s tragedy. There’s drama. There’s scandal. And by gum is there laughter.
Maybe I’m just sad and need to get out more – but this is one of the funniest things I’ve read in yonks.
It’s an excellent thing to read on public transport during rush hour, because spontaneous snorts of uncontrollable laughter and tendency to twitch with embarrassment at his shenanigans mean that you end up with a lot of clear space as everyone moves to the other end of the carriage to escape the crazy…But yes. It’s great. Read it now. There’s not much else to add.