In Youth is Pleasure - Denton Welch

In Youth is Pleasure by  Denton Welch was 75th of 2021. Was finishing off the downloaded books in my kindle, before purchasing anything new. Kept wondering, when and why did I download this book. It did not fascinate me much. 

In Chapter One Orvil's father collects him from school and they spend the night in Oxford, before heading to Salisbury Plain to collect his older brother Ben. 

In Chapter Two they arrive at the hotel where they meet Orvil's oldest brother Charles with whom he has an awkward relationship. He goes canoeing and spies on two boys who are camping with a man. He later hides in some bushes where he masturbates before being caught by an older man; later still he is jeered at by a picknicking group of young men.

 In Chaper Three he tries sweat therapy before dressing up in plus fours and goes out boating with his brothers. He then buys a little scent bottle and a Chinese armorial saucer in an antiques shop. 

In Chapter Four he borrows a bicycle and explores a church where he drinks some communion wine. He re-encounters the man he had seen earlier with the boys, who is a schoolmaster, and spends the afternoon with him in a scout hut. 

In Chapter Five he is charmed by a young woman called Aphra, one of Charles' friends, but at a party later sees Aphra and Charles having sex in a grotto near the hotel. Chapter Six describes Orvil's visit to the family of a schoolfriend in Hastings.

In Chapter Seven he re-encounters the schoolmaster where he discloses his feelings about the loss of his mother. 

Finally in Chapter Eight he returns to school by train where he is bullied by an older boy before being rescued by Ben.

It appears to be an autobiographical book.