Read it for the first time when I was 12.Still think about it, still talk about it, still highly recommend it.

It is almost impossible to grasp that this horrific story is based on Dave’s own childhood.

Willem, 16, is an outsider. Hoping he will become the man she wants him to be, his Ma and her boyfriend send Willem away to a Training Camp where they are proud to 'make men out of boys'. They promise Willem he will be safe there. What they do not tell thew is about the systematic abuse the boys in camp has to endure…