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Six Foot Six

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241317921

  • Length: 96  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 5mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 74g

  • RRP: £1.00

Six Foot Six

It's an exciting day for Timothy Flowers. It's the third of November, and it's Friday, and it's his twenty-first birthday. When Timothy walks to his usual street corner to see his favourite special bus, he meets Charlie. Charlie is a builder who is desperate for Timothy's help because Timothy is very tall, six feet six inches. Timothy has never had a job before - or no work that he's kept for more than a day. But when Timothy and Charlie have to collect money from a local thug, things don't exactly go according to plan...

Over the course of one day, Timothy's life will change for ever.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241317921

  • Length: 96  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 5mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 74g

  • RRP: £1.00

Reviews

  • Authentic and beautiful, urgent and honest, this novel does what only the best do: it quietly makes room in your heart

    Chris Cleave on 'My Name is Leon'

  • Tender and heart-breaking

    Rachel Joyce on 'My Name is Leon'

  • Startlingly funny. Balances the gritty with the feel good

    Observer on 'My Name is Leon'

  • Beautiful and heartbreaking

    Cathy Rentzenbrink on 'My Name is Leon'

  • A beautiful story told with compassion, urgency and wit

    Stephen Kelman on 'My Name is Leon'

  • A touching, thought-provoking debut

    Guardian on 'My Name is Leon'

  • Vivid and endearing - a very powerful book

    Emma Healey on My Name is Leon

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About the Author

Kit de Waal

Kit de Waal, born to an Irish mother and Caribbean father, was brought up among the Irish community of Birmingham in the 60's and 70's. Her debut novel My Name Is Leon was an international bestseller, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for 2017. Her second novel, The Trick to Time, was longlisted for the Women's Prize and her young adult novel Becoming Dinah is shortlisted for the Carnegie CLIP Award 2020. She also crowdfunded and edited an anthology of working class memoir, Common People, which was published in 2018. Kit was named the FutureBook Person of the Year in 2019.

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