Length6h 57m
About this audiobook
September, 1981. Sebastian arrives at Eton College as a scholarship boy from a small Scottish town - clever enough to earn his place, but acutely aware that earning it and belonging to it are not the same thing.
Over five years he will leam the school's unspoken rules: that hierarchy is not a ladder but a weather system, that friendship between boys who should never have been placed together can be the most honest thing in an institution built on performance, and that desire -unnamed and carefully managed - has a habit of surviving everything that is designed to contain it.
Told in the retrospective voice of a man looking back at the boy he was, Eton Mess is a novel about class, ambition, and the cost of becoming someone your origins never intended you to be.
Richard McAllister was born in Scotland and educated in England.
Audiobook details
GenreYoung Adult, Romance
Length6 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 21, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Part One: Michaelmas
2Chapter One: The Station
3Chapter Two: New Boys
4Chapter Three: The Machinery
5Chapter Four: The Hierarchy
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6Chapter Five: Chapel
7Chapter Six: A Letter Home
8Chapter Seven: The First Frost
9Chapter Eight: Tom's Theory
10Chapter Nine: Michaelmas Closing
11Part Two: Lent Term
12Chapter Ten: January
13Chapter Eleven: Henry
14Chapter Twelve: The Shape of a Day
15Chapter Thirteen: The River
16Chapter Fourteen: The Senior Who Looked
17Chapter Fifteen: The End of the Cold
18Part Three: Summer Term
19Chapter Sixteen: The World Goes Green
20Chapter Seventeen: Fairfax Again
21Chapter Eighteen: The Summer's Grammar
22Chapter Nineteen: The Boat
23Chapter Twenty: Something He Saw
24Chapter Twenty-One: Exams
25Part Four: The Second Year
26Chapter Twenty-Two: Return
27Chapter Twenty-Three: The Prefects
28Chapter Twenty-Four: Henry's Game
29Chapter Twenty-Five: Michaelmas Again
30Chapter Twenty-Six: Richards Leaves
31Chapter Twenty-Seven: Fairfax Departs
32Part Five: The Third Year — Finding Oneself in the Machinery
33Chapter Twenty-Eight: What Fifteen Feels Like
34Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Letter Home
35Chapter Thirty: What Carew Knew
36Chapter Thirty-One: The Thing Nobody Said
37Chapter Thirty-Two: Ordinary Happiness
38Chapter Thirty-Three: The Things You Learn Between Classes
39Part Six: Endings and What They Teach
40Chapter Thirty-Four: The Thing I Saw Clearly
41Chapter Thirty-Five: The Summer Again
42Chapter Thirty-Six: What I Took Away
43Part Seven: Fourth Year — The Comfortable Ones
44Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Privilege of Familiarity
45Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Question of Oxford
46Chapter Thirty-Nine: Henry's Year
47Chapter Forty: The Long Michaelmas
48Chapter Forty-One: What Tom Told Me
49Chapter Forty-Two: The People Who Left Marks
50Chapter Forty-Three: The Lent Term Again
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