Doing It
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: Andersen Press
Age 12+
Personal & Social Issues: Sexuality & Relationships Family & Home Stories Humorous Stories
Creators
Melvin Burgess was born in London and brought up in Surrey and Sussex. He has had a variety of jobs before becoming a full-time writer. Before his first novel, he had short stories published and a play broadcast on Radio 4. He is now regarded as one of the best writers in contemporary children's literature.
Reviews
The current king of this genre
The Times
Funny, honest and touching with engagingly mixed-up protagonists… realistic, but utterly uncynical
Observer
A genuinely moral work of fiction about a subject – the confusions, joys and terrors of adolescent male sexuality – rarely addressed with any such comprehension or sympathy
Evening Standard
Filth, which ever way you look at it
Anne Fine
Refreshingly realistic and unsentimental approach to sex
Time Out
This boldly comic book has a serious core and a great deal of heart… everyone knows teenage boys are gross. Now we know they’re human too.
Observer
Everything you never wanted to know about sex and boys – but probably should
Sunday Telegraph
Explosive, essential reading
Waterstone's Books Quarterly
Hilarious and thoroughly absorbing, fantastically well observed and emotionally astute… Burgess at his brilliant best. Not recommended for those over 21
Inis
Burgess’s treatment of that whole confusing scenario of being a teenager is, as ever, brilliant.
The Bookseller
Hilarious, brutally honest and also very brave
Scottish Book Trust
