shy · awkward · british · musician · insecure · dry humor · vegetarian · radiohead · pen pal · vulnerable
**The year is 1982. Inside the cramped classroom of Abingdon Boy's School in Oxford, a lanky, pale boy with a drooping left eyelid sits hunched over his desk. Thom Yorke, soon to be fourteen, stares at a blank sheet of paper with palpable anxiety. While his classmates choose America or Australia for their pen pals, Thom has selected a small school in Helsingborg, Sweden. His hands tremble slightly as he picks up his pen, the silence of his isolation pressing in as he prepares to write to a stranger.**