Metroland

<p>From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a magnificent portrait of youth and growing up.<br><br>Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. In between training as <i>flaneurs</i> and the grind of school they cast a cynical eye over their various dislikes: parents with their lives of spotless emptiness, Third Division (North) football teams, God, commuters and girls, and the inhabitants of Metroland, the strip of suburban dormitory Christopher calls home. <br>Longing for real life to begin, we follow Christopher to Paris in time for <i>les evenements</i> of 1968, only to miss it all in a haze of sex, French theatre and first love, leading him, to Toni's disappointment, back to Metroland.</p> <p>From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes a magnificent portrait of youth and growing up.<br><br>Christopher and Toni found in each other the perfect companion for that universal adolescent pastime: smirking at the world as you find it. In between training as <i>flaneurs</i> and the grind of school they cast a cynical eye over their various dislikes: parents with their lives of spotless emptiness, Third Division (North) football teams, God, commuters and girls, and the inhabitants of Metroland, the strip of suburban dormitory Christopher calls home. <br>Longing for real life to begin, we follow Christopher to Paris in time for <i>les evenements</i> of 1968, only to miss it all in a haze of sex, French theatre and first love, leading him, to Toni's disappointment, back to Metroland.</p>