This book is about  a teenager who moves away from Dublin, and the life he had there. Bobby spent his nights with his friends, stealing cars, joyriding then burning them, stealing things and then selling them, and buying drink and drugs with the money they got. He loved doing this almost every night, and so when he had to leave, the only thing in his head was to get back. When he does, the welcome he gets from his old friends was not exactly the one he was expecting. He ends up getting picked up by the police and being sent back to the countryside. But a few days later, he arrives back in Dublin, and then comes home again…

I quite enjoyed the style of writing that Thompson adopts, but I found that the book just became really repetitive, with the only interesting part being the story of the little lady and the murder of the Swedish man.

Thompson also really tried hard to get into the skin of the characters, especially with Bobby. This was effective up to a certain point, but then it just seemed like she was trying too hard. She was also using deliberate spelling mistakes to convey the accent, but again, she seemed to be trying too hard, as I would have preferred it to have been written normally.

The title of the book was also very misleading, because when I took it out, I was expecting it to have much more action and adventure, but I was very disappointed. Hardly anything happened, and what did was boring and I always seemed to have the feeling that I had read it before. However, she did seem to portray the streets of Dublin and what working on a farm was like quite well.