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Joff Winterhart (Author)
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Publication Date: 21 Jun 2012

'When someone looks back and writes a history of this summer, two people they will almost certainly leave out are Sue and Daniel Bagnold...'

So begins Joff Winterhart's sublimely funny and perceptive graphic novel, Days of the Bagnold Summer. Sue, 52, works in a library. Daniel, 15, is still at school. This was the summer holidays Daniel was due to spend with his father and his father's pregnant new wife in Florida. When they cancel his trip, Sue and Daniel face six long weeks together...

Joff Winterhart perfectly captures the ennui, the tension, the pathos and yes, the affection of this mother-son relationship. Already well-known for his animated films like Violet and Turquoise, he here shows himself to be a comics author of extraordinary talent.

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  • Paperback: 80 pages
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape (21 Jun 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0224090844
  • ISBN-13: 978-0224090841
  • Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 0.6 x 17.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 87,346 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Days of the Bagnold Summer is extremely original, funny, touching and beautifully observed in both the drawing and the writing. There is probably no truer portrait of teenage and parental angst. (Posy Simmonds )

A universal crowd pleaser...my graphic novel of the year... I love this book so much, I would have to instantly excommunicate any friend who didn't feel the same way - though such is its greatness, this won't ever happen. (Rachel Cooke Observer )

Britain's got a new graphic novel star. This funny, sad, extraordinary study of a heavy metal-loving teen and his long-suffering single mum is so well observed it makes your heart tingle. (Larushka Ivan-Zadek Metro )

Days of the Bagnold Summer captures the humiliation and agony of adolescence with excruciating precision. This short, devastating book haunted me for weeks. (Seb Hunter, Author Of 'hell Bent For Leather' )

This is a memorable household, seemingly passed over by history yet given their rightful place on these pages - and recommended by us as well worth meeting. (thebookbag.co.uk )

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A tale of single parenting and heavy metal.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Beautiful Boy and the Big Black Sad Kangaroo 17 July 2012
By LadyOfQuality
Format:Paperback
Over the course of a long dull summer holiday, sullen and withdrawn 15 year old Daniel Bagnold begins to find a place for himself in a scary world. His depressed middle-aged mum Sue, through her attempts to understand and help her lonely son, starts to come to terms with her own unhappy adolescence and failed marriage. Both Bagnolds forge some unexpected new friendships and alliances along the way.

This little graphic novel has just been shortlisted for a 2012 Costa Book Award. It is written and drawn with sophisticated and understated humour, remarkable observational skills and packs in places a subtle emotional punch. Joff Winterhart presents his characters - adolescent lads and their quietly desperate mums - with great sensitivity and perception.

I bought this book during a particularly grim shoe-shopping expedition with my 15 year old son (please read the book to get the joke!) and it had both of us howling with laughter and recognition during a much needed coffee break. The relationships between Daniel and his best friend - the sublimely self-confident and repellent Ky - and Ky's irritatingly bonkers New Age mum (whom we discover to be also caring and shrewd) are particularly well observed.

But after finishing this story alone later on, I found myself crying over a book for the first time in 20 years. These snapshots of a middle-aged mother/teenage-son relationship capture the joys and heartbreak of being a single parent, the agonies and ecstasies of misunderstood teen-dom, and are reminiscent of Posy Simmonds at her very best.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Thank You For The Days. 23 Sep 2012
By Tamara L
Format:Paperback
At last, a graphic novel for middle-aged women. Don't worry, It's just as relevant for a younger readership. The book offers a poignant, hilarious, and subtle observation of the relationship between a mother and son. A day-by-day account of a long summer holiday during the uncommunicative teenage years. It will strike a particular chord for any parent of a heavy metal-loving non-sporty child, but the emotions are universal. It reminded me of one of my own sons at that age (also a Metallica fan) and I will definitely be sending him his own copy. My partner has read it and he loved it too. On the surface it's a quick and easy read, but there's a wealth of detail that is richly rewarding if you pay close attention. I have left it on the coffee table so I can keep picking it up and revisiting it. The characters are well drawn - in every sense. Daniel's hunched figure and his long lank hair that doubles as a defence to hide behind, Sue's large glasses and wistful expression as she catches occasional reminders of the warm and easy relationship she once had with her beautiful boy, now turned into a black-clad remote and sarcastic stranger who is embarassed to be seen in public with her. You hardly know whether to laugh or cry at some of the dialogue:
Sue, 'You know, we did once used to have quite a nice time together...'
Daniel, 'Yeah, but that was before you got really annoying.'
Sue, silently watches Daniel, contemplating some resemblance to her absent father.
Daniel, not even looking up, 'Okay, stop looking at me now.'
At times he is merciless, and Sue, who has her own baggage, is often reduced to tears, but there are flashes of warmth between them that let you know that Daniel is no monster, just a boy finding his way through a difficult time, and slowly moving towards the maturity to relate to his mother as a fellow human being. The other main characters, Ky and his New Age mother are also familiar and well-depicted.
So five stars from me and many more if I'd had them to bestow. Warm, funny, sly, moving, authentic and sharply observed. Wonderful. Can't praise it enough.
Ps. Update: I did buy one for my son and he reported back that he caused a bit of a stir by laughing out loud on the bus while reading it. He said it was the funniest thing he had read in ages, so that's a recommendation from two generations of this family.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars First rate observation of adolescence 5 July 2012
By REB
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I picked up this book on the strength of a good review on the Guardian website. The book didn't disappoint - it is extremely well and honestly observed and drawn, and really captures the difficult age that is adolescence - from the perspective of teenager and parent alike.

It is a quick, compelling read, at turns, both touching and funny. In comparison to the recollection of adolescence in well-known graphic novels such as Craig Thompson's Blankets or Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Days of the Bagnold Summer is much smaller in scale, and less plot-driven - in terms of form, it is really a series of short, pithy tableaux (and it doesn't appear either to aspire to the status of memoir). It is tribute to Winterhart's talent though, that the book as a whole is just as involving as the two mentioned.
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5.0 out of 5 stars quite perfect
Deceptively simple story of an awkward teenager and his only slightly less awkward single mum. I was so impressed with this I bought more copies and gave them to friends.
Published 3 days ago by Mr. Timothy M. Jokl
5.0 out of 5 stars one for my boy and me
bought for my teenager...he has read it...I still haven't got round to it but hear it is good. He loves a good graphic book/novel
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5.0 out of 5 stars So glad I heard of this one. Really beautiful and real!
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I hadn't read a graphic novel before, but was tempted by a review I saw in the Guardian. I read it all in one sitting (it's not long) and felt really sad when it was finished. Read more
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The Days of the Bagnold Summer, is a slight tale but one with great emotional resonance. Having been a teenage boy, I found much to identify with one its two main characters. Read more
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Especially good for parents of teenagers or anyone who ever was a teenager! Easy to understand why it was nominated for such illustrious an award
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5.0 out of 5 stars great present for anyone with a teenager
funny, beautifully drawn, gentle but spot-on humour. I bought this for a friend who was in despair at the behaviour of her teenage son - it cheered her up.
Published 4 months ago by vicki london
5.0 out of 5 stars A mother and her son
Joff Winterhart's graphic novel follows a mother and son over the six weeks of the summer holiday. Daniel is a hoodie-wearing, Metallica-loving, teenager who resists most of his... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Eleanor
5.0 out of 5 stars Charming and a little sad
I keep coming back to this. Dipping and dipping. It feels very real. The body language is very cleverly done. Compare mother and son across the weeks, how they move together. Read more
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