"After his grandfather dies, Charlie Evans manages to get in with the wrong crowd - specifically “low-life Frankie Cash”, when he parents moves from Dublin to Gorey. Packed off to India for a year’s schooling at Sir Winstons, in a program for problem kids, Charlie arrives at New Delhi where he knows no one. He’s driven in a Maruti 800 to Dwarka to his new home where he meets Rahmeev Kapoor and family - his wife Shanu Rahmeev Kapoor, a son Chandri Kapoor who is a boy about Charlie’s age, younger sons who are twin brothers Aarjav and Aarzoo an “irascible pair”, and daughter Sharu. Thirteen-year-old Charlie experiences new adventures, “a culture shock on his system”…”the poorness of the people staggered him”, vastly different from his visits to the Lotus Temple, Golden Temple, travels on Ganges seeing the Varanasi and the Manikarnika Ghats, developing a taste for Indian cuisine, the festival Deepawali, attending Christmas service and Paddy’s Day service at The Sacred Heart cathedral, the Mamallapuram dance festival, Holi, the festival of colours, tiger safari, and the marvels of the Taj Mahal. Introduced to new sports, Charlie quickly learns to play crickets and rock climbing, strengthening his body as his inner soul also changes, learning a respect for other cultures, learning new lessons outside of the classroom. Sorting out Charlie was a lovely first read of a book by Liam Robert Mullen, and it won’t be my last."

"I was interested in reading this book because both Ireland and India are exotic to me: exotic in the sense of being foreign to what I am: a product of California white suburbs and mixed-race cities. And, frankly, the mix of races in Oakland wasn’t much exotic at all – just slightly different flavors of American culture. So it was with my special interest that I read this Irishman’s description of India which I found to be very informative. Much of the travelogue info is imparted by way of dialogue: mostly conversations between the story’s main character and the young lady who may or may not be a romantic interest. You’ll have a better idea of their relationship a quarter of the way through the novel, but I didn’t want to issue a spoiler alert. The author’s writing style is lean enough to permit quick and uninterrupted rendering of the story. My one criticism is his non use of indented paragraphs. His writing style or rather his authorial voice improves in the last chapters indicating that he should continue creating stories and keep on entertaining the reader."