Told backwards, from his sudden death to a brawling 10-year old, this is the biography of Stuart Shorter, a chaotic ex-rough sleeper and ex-prisoner who occasionally ‘loses it’ and throws the television at the wall. Stuart dismisses Masters’s first draft as ‘bollocks boring’ and suggests doing it the other way round; the result is a compelling story, veering from funny to tragic, of a life lived among the ‘underclass’. Strong themes and language.