Chip is sixteen and has been brought up at a boys' home. He wants to trace his parentage and the book describes his quest.
Chip is sixteen and has been brought up at Brockhurst, a boys' home in South London. He is very impatient to trace his parentage before he reaches eighteen when he has a legal right to do so. Aided by his younger room-mate, Lovebyte, with whom he is intimate, Chip embarks on a long search which takes him all over the country. Labelled as gay by all the rest of the unruly boys, life is never easy for the pair, but they somehow manage to brave it out. Although studious Lovebyte is still at school, Chip works at 'Wallington World', a rather pathetic, local freebie rag. However, innate investigative journalism within him fuels his convoluted detective work. His long quest is also a voyage of self-discovery during his difficult adolescent years.