Mister Roberts (2008)

UK

Novel

Author: Alexei Sayle

A bullied thirteen-year-old boy, a member of the British ex-pat community of a small Spanish town, discovers a man-shaped robot suit, designed to house an alien being whilst it explores Earth, which he climbs into and learns to control, using it to have all manner of fun, but unfortunately his scheming mother has other, less savoury ideas for it, in Sayle’s perceptively jaundiced, tremendously inventive, and thoroughly bonkers comic novel. Iain.Stott