The flycatcher

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The Fly Catcher is the first novel by Willy Russell , who had previously written dramas and musicals such as Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine . The original edition appeared in London in 2000 under the title The Wrong Boy . The German translation of the novel was first published in 2001 as a hardcover and has been available as a paperback since 2002 . In 2002 a 326 minute audio book was published.

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Raymond Marks is a huge fan of Morrissey , songwriter for Manchester band The Smiths . On the way from his hometown near Manchester to the coastal town of Grimsby to take up a job in a building brigade that will finally turn him into a man and “normal boy”, he tells his life story so far in letters to his idol Morrissey. In this it rattles from one misunderstanding and misfortune to another. Doom begins when he was eleven years old with a harmless boy play on the canal, catching flies with the help of his penis and foreskin. The fate comes here in the form of a wasp, so that the whole thing finally comes out and Raymond is turned from the helpless school principal to the instigator of a "sadistic mass masturbation" and expelled from the school as a scapegoat. Since nobody in town wants to have anything to do with the “pervert”, a vicious circle of being excluded, getting fat and psychological examinations ensues. He tries again and again to clear up the misunderstandings, especially because it takes him to see his mother sad. But only his grandmother, a left-wing free spirit with Gandhi and Wittgenstein as idols, accepts and understands him without reservation. A new misunderstanding, his "bastard Jason", a local rape offense and a hobby psychologist who has had an eye on Raymond's single mother bring Raymond to a closed psychiatric ward. Like his life, his journey follows a zigzag line caused by silly coincidences. But at the end of this development novel, he actually arrives in Grimsby. After another great hardship, chance finally leads him up and Raymond, now 19, finds his destiny and his intellectual independence, also from Morrissey.

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