New Boy
William Sutcliffe
1996
Barry had joined the school three weeks earlier, at the start of the sixth form. There was a tradition at the school that any new boy would be ignored by everyone except the Christians for roughly a year. While this operated perfectly well for all the other new sixth formers, it didn’t work on Barry because he managed to ignore everyone else before…
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