Ginger, You're Barmy

"Vivid, funny, and with a compassion made all the more moving by the harshness of its military setting" Daily Telegraph "Has the ring of complete authenticity...the mingling of horror and farce are all brilliantly evoked" -- A.N. Wilson Spectator "Engaging slapstick...the Woody Allen of contemporary English fiction" -- Jonathan Bate Sunday Telegraph "An authentic picture of the sordid futility of National Service... I found the total recall agreeably unnerving" -- Christopher Ricks New Statesman "National Service has rarely been better evoked... an extremely well-told, well-organised story" Times Literary Supplement