

Here we are again in a completely different setting, and time, although the young man naively in a strange world features again. If nothing else the pair showed up the chameleonic brilliance of this young author. There must have been countless people reading the book after watching the film made from The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and wondering what John Boyne was going to do next, with no idea he had already done something else - the brilliant ribaldry of Mutiny on the Bounty. It gets over a slightly bitty structure to win through as a success in the end. Summary: One of the 20th Century's more romantic stories retold for the new age.
