Jake Hayward

A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.

Everyone has Halloween, but in Yorkshire, they have Mischief Night, where madness and mayhem rule. In the course of one night, the barriers that separate two families—one white, one Asian—come tumbling down in a blaze of crime, clubbing, love and fireworks—changing all their lives forever.