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THE TAKING OF BATTLEMOUNT HIGH is an intense, rollicking read about the quietly devastating effects of war on those thousands of miles away from the front-line. Kenneth Pratt has wormed his way right inside the head of a very strange, but all too believable, young man.
Alan Bissett, award-winning author of Boy Racers

Raw, unflinching, and unrelentingly funny even in the darkest of moments, this is a ‘riot’ of passage. Imagine Holden Caulfield if he’ll been dragged up in a scheme and had to face real problems, like pit bings, dead dogs and thinking. This is a book with plenty to say in a voice all of its own, and of its place. I loved it.
Craig Robertson, Sunday Times best-selling crime writer

Ken Pratt’s extraordinary new novel, The Taking of Battlemount High, is a tragic spiral depicting the brutalization of militarism and the ethos of war upon its teenage protagonist, Winston Montgomery. The novel’s distinction is that while it is intense, unflinching and determined in its insistence upon the processes of hurt and the inflicting of damage, it is also an engaging portrait of a young man, his childhood rapidly dissolving into adulthood.
Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow

A harrowing study of a teenage boy’s breakdown following his brother’s death in Afghanistan. Ken Pratt shows great empathy for his characters in this account of intergenerational PTSD.
Maureen Myant, educational psychologist and author