Fall of the Flamingo Circus

Kate Rigby

It's an interesting concept: the diary of a disaffected girl growing up in London in the seventies and becoming part of the genesis of the punk subculture. An insider's view of what really happened, if you will. And it might have worked, had the main character been at all worth caring about. It didn't help matters that the main character was unable to spell. One assumes this was a conceit used to show her arrested educational development, but it came off less as empathetic than it did as outright annoying. Pass on this one.