Spud is a masterpiece of a novel
By Olivia Scott-Berry / Spinebreakers Crew
Spud, by John Van de Ruit, isn’t the fastest selling book in Africa’s publishing history for nothing. This uproariously hilarious story will have you in the emergency room, you’ll laugh so hard!
John Milton (known to his dorm mates as Spud) is attending one of the most prestigious schools in South Africa. He’s looking forward to getting away from his lunatic parents and shrivelled up Grandma, but, little does he know that his new school chums have fallen even harder off the crazy bus than his outrageously zany family. Amongst his new friends: Mad Dog, Boggo, Gecko, Rain Man, Rambo and Fatty. Ready yourself for a wackily witty, crazily kooky, madcap adventure…
Van de Ruit has written a side-splittingly riotous book which will entertain you for hours. Spud’s utterly amusing narrative of public school frolics is both amazingly funny and hugely heart warming, this is a masterpiece of a novel. Not only will this novel have you crying with laughter at every turn, it will also have you sniffling as Van de Ruit unveils his last weirdly emotional twist.
Spud is a vastly lively account of comically creative schoolboy antics that will make you laugh harder than ever before. Keep a box of tissues handy, for tears both of mirth and woe.