The Wrong Boy

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’.

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First edition (publ. Doubleday )