The French Run

A coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s between the working-class East End of London and bucolic rural France; two lads find themselves on the run and in the unexpected world of the classic French novel Le Grand Meaulnes. A love of literature, swearing and smoking combine in this witty, rude and beautifully lyrical rites-of-passage novel



It started on our last ever day of school. When the teacher called out “Please stop writing,” we got up from the final exam with the rest of the cla...