Presented by Penguin.

Unforgettably funny and painfully honest, Jonathan Coe’s tale of Benjamin Trotter and his friends’ coming old through the 1970s is a heartfelt celebration from the joys and agonies of growing up.

Featuring, among other activities, IRA bombs, prog rock and roll, punk rock, poor poetry, first love, love privately, prefects, detention, several containers of Blue Nun, lots of dark brown wallpaper, industrial strife, and divine involvement in the form of a set of swimming trunks.

Set against the backdrop from the decade’s course challenges, tragic and riotous by converts, filled with thwarted love and furtive sex, The Rotters’ Membership is for anyone who ever experienced adolescence the hard method.