Jay Shay | The Birthday Boys | Beryl Bainbridge | Review @JayShayy | Uploaded February 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
The Birthday Boys
by Beryl Bainbridge
1991


also mentioned:
The Worst Journey in the World
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
1922
his memoir of the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910–1913
free on gutenberg:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/14363

THE BIRTHDAY BOYS is the first book on Rick MacDonnell's Booktube spin for me.

*edit*
Here is Steve Donoghue talking about Cherry-Garrard's book:
youtu.be/xx8HAa7cPFk

(Video #381)