A boy is racked by guilt. His family have moved house and school to help him come to terms with a violent event at his best friend's house,to no avail. Little do they realise just how much he knows about this unspoken tragedy - and how well-placed he was to prevent it. Keeping dark secrets buried deep down is always a mistake - and when it causes you to become vulnerable to all the petty thuggery of the playground,more tragedy seems inevitable. Told in the eleven-year-old boy's own idiom,by carefully constructed flashback,this startlingly moving cliffhanger explores every range of bullying,and every response: the ambitious dad,the copy-cat son,the mob rule of the classroom,and the benign blindness of a hapless family. It all boils down to one question: just how guilty are you,when you knew but did not say
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Publisher: Andersen Press LtdISBN: 9781842706770Number of pages: 166Weight: 150 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 11 mm
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"Fine,spare,page-turning writing with superb dialogue. Strongly recommended." - Niall MacMonagle Irish Times "This haunting first novel will grip readers right from the start." Publishers Weekly "Frank and dramatic" School Librarian
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