Book description
This is a story of eight young boys, Barney, David, Denis, Rory,
Hugh,Dominic, Steve & Aaron, just about to leave school at the age
offourteen as that was the school leaving age in 1940 when this
storybegan. It is told by BARNEY, who was the class Prefect, as Barney
wasconsidered to be the brains of the gathering and he had the
bestmemory. The story is related when Barney is a much older
man,suggested by David, one of his old classmates, in order to
recordwhat the boys were like as youngsters and how they would develop
asthey grew up . . . This is a story of eight young boys, Barney,
David, Denis, Rory, Hugh,Dominic, Steve & Aaron, just about to leave
school at the age offourteen as that was the school leaving age in 1940
when this storybegan. It is told by BARNEY, who was the class Prefect,
as Barney wasconsidered to be the brains of the gathering and he had the
bestmemory. The story is related when Barney is a much older
man,suggested by David, one of his old classmates, in order to
recordwhat the boys were like as youngsters and how they would develop
asthey grew up . . .
