The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness

ISBN-13-978-15098-3068-8

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Born in Accrington in 1964, Graham Caveney was unaware that he belonged to what would later come to recognize as the 'Respectable Working Class'. From altar boy to Kafka-quoting adolescent, his is the story of a teenage boy's obsession with music, a love affair with books, and how he eventually used them to plot his way out of his home town. But his is also a story of abuse: for years the headmaster of Caveney's Catholic school was his inspiring mentor, but he was also his abuser. Always acutely written and often shockingly funny, The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness is an astonishing memoir, startling in its originality. 

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'A thoughtful tale about music, class, religion and sexual abuse in 1970s and 1980s Accrington...Gripping.' Manchester Evening News