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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 Challenge—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.
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My third Nicholls book and just like One Day and The Understudy, I couldn't put it down once I started it. Thrilling at times, it truly is both a hilarious and quite a bit embarrassing read in a kind of a 'I hope I'll never do something like that' sort of way. But the brutal truth is that we all will, at some point in life. For a slightly miserable 18-year-old sod such as myself, this was a brilliant What To Expect sort of book before university. So there.
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