Imprint: Bantam
Published: 03/01/2013
ISBN: 9780857500663
Length: 528 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 32mm x 127mm
Weight: 357g
RRP: £16.99
A time to escape
Twelve-year-old Owen Brand and his family move to Middlecross, a riverside town in rural Canada, hoping to leave poverty and unhappiness behind.
A time for innocence
Owen meets three local boys, and they soon form an inseparable band. Over the summer holidays they create their own world, a place apart from the adults who watch over them. Owen also grows close to Jennifer, a fascinating but deeply troubled girl.
And a time to grow up
Then the gang stumble across a body in the river – a discovery with unimaginable consequences for them and the town, from which there is no going back.
Imprint: Bantam
Published: 03/01/2013
ISBN: 9780857500663
Length: 528 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 32mm x 127mm
Weight: 357g
RRP: £16.99
Wonderfully and intimately evoked...a writer of real imaginative force and breadth.
Startlingly real...it is remarkable for a first novel.
An excellent novel...a terrific new talent.