Starter for Ten - David Nicholls

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

ldquo;Utterly charming . . . a big-hearted, flawless coming-of-age
tale, as scary and funny as your yearbook picture."-People (four stars)

The year is 1985. Brian Jackson, a working-class kid on full scholarship, has started
his first term at university. He has a dark secret-a long-held, burning ambition
to appear on the wildly popular British TV quiz show University Challengemdash;and now,
finally, it seems the dream is about to become reality. He’s made the school team,
and they’ve completed the qualifying rounds and are limbering up for their first
televised match. (And, what’s more, he’s fallen head over heels for one of his teammates,
the beautiful, brainy, and intimidatingly posh Alice Harbinson.) Life seems perfect
and triumph inevitable-but as his world opens up, Brian learns that a little knowledge
can be a dangerous thing.

Praise for A Starter for Ten

"Fresh, edgy and very funny . . . [David Nicholls] has a talent
for droll dialogue and a wonderful sense of the ridiculous."mdash;USA Today

"Starter
for Ten has that elusive Hornby-factor. . . . It’s wincingly funny . . . a prospect
to savour."mdash;Arena