‘Kneale’s wonderfully authentic scampish voice...in a hugely appealing and completely convincing voice, Kneale turns this child’s buoyant resourcefulness into good-natured heroism. Along the way he somehow manages to tell the quintessential story of all our desperate and obsessive childhoods, fraught with dangers little and big, loves possessive or forgotten, and parents who are loved – or to be forgiven.’ Waterstones Books Quarterly.