I know that just because a book has a fifteen year old protagonist doesn’t automatically make it a young adult book. I battled (well ok, maybe battled is getting a bit giddy) with the decision to whether I should class this as young adult.

My inhaling reading of Mr Dunthorne’s debut was only hindered occasionally by me stopping to jot down some of my favourite quotes and then pick up my phone so I could text them to my sister. This is exactly what happened with Submarine. I like to call books like these “It got dark” books meaning you pick it up in the afternoon and you read…and read….and read and then the next time you look up well, um, it got dark. Our imaginary conversations would be about lots of excellent things from films to music, to whether it would make him uncomfortable if I touched his hair), I really, really enjoyed it. Is it a bit vile and vulgar and is there lots of graphic sex and fumblings?Ĭonsidering I only read this book so I had something to talk to Richard Ayoade about (I’m kidding.

I barked like a seal a few times, so yes, again… very much so. This could have gone either way and I think I knew this risk before I started this book. I just don’t find it funny because I’m a horrible, stuffy prude) but I adore Wes Anderson. Submarine meet reader.įor I really dislike The Inbetweeners (I know, I know… I have received many a horrified glare when I have divulged this information. Ever wondered what it would be like if Wes Anderson got drunk on vodka and watched the entire box set of The Inbetweeners in one night?

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