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The year is 1985. Brian Jackson, a working-class kid on full scholarship, has started his first term at university. He has a dark secret—a long-held, burning ambition to appear on the wildly popular British TV quiz show University Challenge—and now, finally, it seems the dream is about to become reality. He's made the school team, and they've completed the qualifying rounds and are limbering up for their first televised match. (And, what's more, he's fallen head over heels for one of his teammates, the beautiful, brainy, and intimidatingly posh Alice Harbinson.) Life seems perfect and triumph inevitable—but as his world opens up, Brian learns that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
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Starter for Ten, David Nicholls
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- Starter for Ten
- Subtitle
- A Novel
- Language
- English
- Authors
- David Nicholls
- Publisher
- Villard
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 338
- ISBN10
- 0345498127
- ISBN13
- 9780345498120
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Young Adult, Humor, Love, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, Contemporary Romance, England, Coming Of Age, English Literature, Adapted for Film, Young Adult Romance, Studying, University, College, Bestsellers, Problems, Quizzes, English Humor
- First published
- 2003
- Original title
- Starter for Ten
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- The year is 1985. Brian Jackson, a working-class kid on full scholarship, has started his first term at university. He has a dark secret—a long-held, burning ambition to appear on the wildly popular British TV quiz show University Challenge—and now, finally, it seems the dream is about to become reality. He's made the school team, and they've completed the qualifying rounds and are limbering up for their first televised match. (And, what's more, he's fallen head over heels for one of his teammates, the beautiful, brainy, and intimidatingly posh Alice Harbinson.) Life seems perfect and triumph inevitable—but as his world opens up, Brian learns that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.