Hugely entertaining and hysterically funny. I laughed out loud and found myself transported back to my teenage years, when the world was still an oyster and the anxieties and restrictions of adulthood were but vague shapes on a very distant horizon.

This is a road-trip which spans the globe. A seventeen year-old in limbo, waiting for his exam results and consequently his departure for university, decides to embark on the most outrageous of journeys, prompted by nothing more significant than a random visit to a pound-shop.

Written with a break-neck pace, and filled with hilarious characters such as the Spaniel-obsessed pensioner with a take-no-prisoners attitude to scrabble and the protagonist’s Gestapo-esque younger sister whose network of teenage agents keeps tabs on her brother’s every movement.

And yes, the title does make sense… eventually. Dare I suggest a sequel?