Description

Oliver is eighteen, and really wants to enjoy herself prior to going to college. But this is actually the 1920s, and he lives in Stilbourne, a little English country village, where everyone knows what everyone else gets as much as, and where lust, love and revolt are carefully accompanied by shame and vengeance. Created with good belief and subtlety, The Chart is Golding's funniest and most light hearted book, which probes the painful awkwardness of the late teens, and all of the tragedy and farce of living in a little neighborhood