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<b>From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of <i>A Sense of an Ending</i> comes a comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s that is “wonderfully fresh, crackling with nostalgic irreverence” (<i>Vogue</i>). <br><br></b>Only the author of <i>Flaubert's Parrot</i> could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us call "growing up" and others "selling out.