The Scouting book for boys
feature-length director debut for Tom Harper hits the spot
Can most Friends remember their ‘coming-of-age’ summer, I wonder? I certainly can, and, like the two young people in The Scouting Book for Boys, mine also involved a caravan park. And waving fields of golden corn. Plus absent parents, of course; that’s pretty much an essential ingredient. I don’t think I can stretch the similarity much further, but that was still enough to make me settle down to Tom Harper’s film with a pleasurable frisson of nostalgia.
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