Publisher’s Blurb
The tone of The Hand-Reared Boy is lightly humorous, with a sentiment that never drops into sentimentality. It presents without swagger, much that is not easy to accept.
Brian Says

Young Horatio Stubbs suffers the pangs of adolescence, but is weaned from the pleasures of masturbation by the delights offered by his school’s nursing sister, who is not all she seems. The novel became a great scandal in England, where it was rejected by thirteen publishers, and caused a law-suit – as a result of which it became a bestseller.

FIRST EDITION: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970

1	Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1970 – reprinted 1970, 1971, 1978	Hardcover
2	McCall Publishing Co., New York, 1970	Hardcover
3	Signet Books, New York, 1971	Paperback
4	Corgi Books, London, 1971 – reprinted 1971 (twice), 1972, 1973 (twice), 1974, 1979	Paperback
5	as: Horatio, een Welopgevoede Jongen, Meulenhoff, Amsterdam, 1971	Paperback
6	as: Gross Durch Eigene Hand, Gala, Hamburg, 1971	Hardcover
7	as: Un Petit Garcon Elévé á La Main, Henri Veyrier, Paris, 1977	Paperback
8	Sanrio, Tokyo, 1980	Paperback
9	as: Mano Dura, Ultramar, Madrid, 1981	Paperback
10	in: The Horatio Stubbs Saga. Panther Granada, London, 1985	Paperback
11	as: Mano Dura, Salvat Editores, Barcelona, 1987	Paperback
12	Souvenir Press, London, 1999	Paperback