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Summer vacation was always the focus of the school year, and this book serves up not just one but two summer vacations. In the first half of the book, we accompany Nicholas and his parents to a seaside vacation - unfortunately one where rain often stops play and the chicken fricasee in the hotel is abysmal! In the second half, Nicholas is sent off to summer camp, where the thrills of swimming in the ocean, making new friends and getting lost in the woods more than compensate for the odd spot of homesickness. You can feel the thrill of getting away from school, exploring new places and making summer friends on every page of this book - as well as share in Nicholas' ennui on the last day back home from vacations. Just so evocative, real and funny. Great stuff. I'm sad that I have just one more Nicholas book to read! However, I shall console myself with another series about school life that I recently discovered - the Ribblestrop books.