Alby and Me is a powerful and poignant evocation of the friendship of two teenager boys growing up on a tough English housing estate in the late 1940s. Set against a background of family strife, it is a gritty, compelling, often humorous, account of a critical period in the boys' lives as they encounter bullies, sexually savvy girls, a suicide, and God. It is a story touched with both joy and sadness and has an ending many may find hard to forget.