The God of All Small Boys

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James is sent away to live with his mill-town relatives in this nostalgic, coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of Dundee during WW1.Some summers were made for growing up...Dundee 1917. When his father goes to fight in the war, 11-year-old James is sent to live with his mill-town relatives and his cousin, Billy. In this unfamiliar world of poverty, bullying, and uncertainty, James fights to be accepted and learns the true value of friendship and family.Touching, funny and firmly rooted on the jute-ridden streets of the Scottish mill-town, The God of all Small Boys was one of only three shortlisted for the 2015 Dundee Great War Children's Book Prize.