Years of Plenty

A young boarder adjusts to the habits and hierarchies of a traditional school, experiencing confusion over routines, awkwardness in chapel, and the etiquette of collars and rooms. Episodic scenes mix comic ragging, the tormenting of a gentle master, prefect discipline, and fierce house rivalries that build to a single notable late-term confrontation. The book then follows the same sensibility into university life, offering sketches of study, friendships, campus rituals, and sporting contests. Together the episodes portray the pleasures, humiliations, and loyalties of youth within institutional routines, balancing humour with a gentle, occasionally poignant view of growing up.