In Youth is Pleasure

''Unlike any other person I had come across, Welch seemed to be speaking particularly to me'' Alan Bennett

''Vivid ... surprising ... an exquisite balance of pain and beauty'' Guardian

Orvil Pym does not fit in. A waifish, eccentric, sensitive fifteen-year-old, he hates school and longs to be alone. Spending his Summer holidays in a genteel Surrey hotel with his mysterious father and two brothers wh...