Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award "An agreeably readable first novel . . . light-hearted throughout, and altogether the book is a promising beginning to Mr Prince"s career as a novelist." - J. G. Farrell, The Listener "Mr Prince is absolutely first class. His short book grips as a story . . . It"s exciting, relevant, a whole-sale gift for the top-notch department." - Oswell Blakeston, Books and Bookmen "[A] newcomer who looks worth watching . . . Prince contrives to make [his] hero entirely sympathetic . . . he creates an air of hope and human potential, and you feel a surge of sheer affection for this not-so-null figure." - The Guardian The 27-year-old hero of Play Things recently graduated and landed a job at a top architectural firm, but, he says, "I got tired." Now he"s dropped out, grown his hair out long and taken a job as a playleader at an adventure playground. But he quickly finds that the job isn"t quite what he"d expected. The kids...