Critical Praise

"In the tradition of Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep, with just the right hint of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Dolby gives us a glimpse into the rarefied world of elite New England boarding schools and manages at the same time to say something new about adolescence, sexuality, and the way art can give us what we need to survive."

——Ayelet Waldman, bestselling author of Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

"Written with assurance, nuance, and compassion, Tom Dolby's The Sixth Form is a classic coming-of-age story about two boys, at first surprised by how different they are from each other's perceptions, and ultimately surprised by how different they are from their own self-perceptions. Woven into this narrative is a gripping suspense story that evokes Donna Tartt's The Secret History and makes the book very difficult to put down. These are rich, developed characters, and there is much insight here into the nature of adolescence and the lonely and ambivalent workings of the heart as it first awakens to love."

——Andrew Solomon, National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Noonday Demon and A Stone Boat