The Taste of Too Much

by Clifford Hanley

. Light reading wear

Genres: Fiction

200 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

Clifford Leonard Clark "Cliff" Hanley was a Scottish journalist, novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He was educated at Eastbank Academy in Glasgow.

During the late 1930s, he was active in the Independent Labour Party. During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector.

He wrote a number of books, including Dancing in the Street, an account of his early life in Glasgow (in its contemporaneous serialisation in The Evening Times, retitled My Gay Glasgow), The Taste of Too Much (1960), a coming-of-age novel about a secondary schoolboy, and The Scots.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Cliff Hanley published several thrillers under the pen-name Henry Calvin.

Reviews

[Eddie Hutchence · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is a great amount of detail paid to capturing that sense of wonderment in dull conversations that don't seem so dull anymore when love is involved. The young love portrayed here is unlike many that I've come across so far; it feels genuine and true. There is a good deal of humour scattered throughout too.

[Lysergius · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent coming of age novel set in Glasgow.