When <strong>How I Spent My Summer Holidays</strong> was first published in 1981 a Westernreviewer wrote If Who Has Seen the Wind told the story of a young boys... » 

When How I Spent My Summer Holidays was first published in 1981 a Westernreviewer wrote If Who Has Seen the Wind told the story of a young boyscoming to terms with death How I Spent My Summer Holidays tells of a youngmans attempt to come to terms with his own sexuality and that of the worldaround him.The twelveyearold young man is Hugh and in smalltown Saskatchewan it is thehot summer of 1924. When Hugh and his friends dig a secret cave out on thePrairie they soon find it occupied by an escaped patient from the mentalhospital. Defying the adult world the boys become involved with a former warhero and current rumrunner King Motherwell in sheltering and feeding therunaway. When passions aroused by sex explode into murder Hugh leaves hisboyhood behind him for ever. «