Book review: How to Build a Boat is on solid ground with tale of love, friends and neurodiversity

Elaine Feeney’s second novel is a big-hearted tale of love, friendship and neurodiversity, with a memorable cast of characters who feel believable and very real.

Thirteen-year-old Jamie O’Neill is about to start secondary school in Christ’s College in the small Galway town of Emory, a situation that is ripe for bouts of anxiety in most teenage boys but even more so for the neurodiverse Jamie, for whom planning and routine are extremely important in helping ...