Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. Fun And Games by John Patrick McHugh is a coming-of-age tale that grapples with social class, manhood, and all of its fragilities.
What We Say: “Lose yourself in the liminal summer between school finishing and university beginning, but make it rural Ireland. Seventeen and finishing his last year of school in a small Irish town off the west coast, John is unsure of how to navigate the end of childhood, a relationship with an older colleague, and his mother sending a compromising picture to a man who is not his father. Growing up isn’t all fun and games.” – Natalie Beecroft
What They Say: “Bighearted and boisterous, bursting with life“ – Colin Walsh
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Natalie Beecroft is a London-based writer and contributing writer for Service95
