I remember being dazzled a few years back by the technical virtuosity of Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas... but Black Swan Green is altogether different beast: a delicate, deeply human – and utterly mesmerising! – coming-of-age.

A year in the life of 13-year-old Jason Tyler in a sleepy 1980’s English village; set against a slow-motion divorce, burgeoning literary aspirations, the cruelty schoolyard intimidation.

The poetry of childhood, and no mistake!