Scum

Red cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. In age-toned, price-clipped dust jacket, with a few short, closed tears to edges and a crease line to tail of upper panel. *** A novel based on the TV play banned by the BBC in 1977: ‘an uncompromising, often shocking and outspoken comment on the bleak, brutal world of the borstal.’ A film version was released in 1979 with Ray Winstone reprising his role as Carlin, one of the borstal boys.