The Wrong Boy Explained

The Wrong Boy, published in 2000,^[1] is playwright Willy Russell’s first novel.^[2]

Russell is mainly known for his plays Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine which have both been made into films, and Blood Brothers, a musical.

The Wrong Boy, like Educating Rita & Our Day Out, is about education; this time about a teenage boy who falls foul of the British educational system, and how he eventually ‘makes good’.^[3]

Notes and References

1. The Wrong Boy, Edition reprint, revised, Black Swan, 2001,
2. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/willy-russell-mn0000676474 Willy Russell"
3. Hickling, Alfred. "Review. 'The Wrong Boy'" The Guardian, 20 October 2000