Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781847672384
ISBN: 1847672388
Label: Canongate Books
Manufacturer: Canongate Books
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: April 03, 2008
Publisher: Canongate Books
Studio: Canongate Books

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Rating: - Still relevant today
Charlie Forbes, a secondary school teacher passed over for promotion because of his sermanising, decides to put his money where he mouth is and take a promising student from a Glasgow slum on his family holiday. Tom is a clever lad, but has been picked up for stealing, though he took butter.

A snap-shot of '50s Glasgow, which is all too recognisable in today's city and a look at the argument of nature vs. nurture.

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Rating: - Unexpected, Brilliant!
This book was sent to me and I don't think I would have selected it had I seen it in a store. But I was gripped from the first page and could hardly put it down. It takes a lot to grip ME! But this author REALLY knows what he is doing, and, in just a few words, paints portraits so vivid that you are in the minds of all the characters and just longing to know what is going to happen.
The theme of charity, a middle-class family taking a delinquent slum kid with them on their Scottish holiday, ... Read More

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Rating: - The nature of charity and compassion
Robin Jenkins is an author whose work has only gradually begun to receive the recognition that it deserves during the past decade, with many of his books which were out-of-print, being republished recently by Polygon. I have read several of Jenkins' novels and The Changeling is undoubtedly the best that I have read. Although it was written in 1958 the themes it touches upon are still relevant.
The Changeling is about a slum child, Tom Curdie, who is taken on holiday by his teacher, Charles ... Read More

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Rating: - The Changeling - Enjoy at any level
This classic piece of litrature reflects in many ways society's influences on family units and individuals. The novel is based on the quest of and idealistic teacher, Charlie Forbes. He feels his pupil, Tom, would benefit from a holiday with the Forbes' Family in the country. The changeling was written and set in the mid 1950's, but is a pertinent now as the time it was written. I feel Robin Jenkins work is thought provoking and inspiring; his ability to produce realistic characters enables him ... Read More

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Rating: - A depressing, yet thought provoking read.
The Changeling is the story of a small, deprived boy named Tom Curdie being taken on a family holiday with his pensive teacher Charlie Forbes. Over the course of the book, Robin Jenkins employs his omniscient writing style to good effect, getting into the minds of all the characters in such a way as to really bring the story to life. The exceptional quality to his writing really does make the characters he creates feel real enough to truly empathize with and feel sorry for.

The story that ... Read More

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