 The book offers an insight into the life of a boy of high caste during the early 1900s and also into the training of pigeons.Several chapters are told from Gay-Neck's perspective, with the pigeon speaking in first person.Elizabeth Seeger writes in a biographical note about Mukerji that, "Gay-Neck was written in Brittany, where every afternoon he read to the children gathered about him on the beach the chapter he had written in the morning."