Don't Let Me Go
Sometimes a child knows better...'Grace': Ten-year-old Grace knows that her mum loves her, but her mum loves drugs too. And there's only so long Grace can fend off the 'woman from the county' who is threatening to put her into care. Her only hope is...'Billy': Grown-man Billy Shine hasn't been...
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Sometimes a child knows better...'Grace': Ten-year-old Grace knows that her mum loves her, but her mum loves drugs too. And there's only so long Grace can fend off the 'woman from the county' who is threatening to put her into care. Her only hope is...'Billy': Grown-man Billy Shine hasn't been out of his apartment for years. People scare him, and the outside world scares him even more. Day in, day out, he lives a perfectly orchestrated silent life within his four walls. Until now...'The Plan': Grace bursts into Billy's life with a loud voice and a brave plan to get her mum clean. And it won't be easy, because they will have to confiscate the one thing her mum holds most dear ...they will have to kidnap Grace.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780552776677 (055277667X)
Publish date: September 29th 2011
Publisher: Black Swan Books Ltd
Pages no: 422
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Mental Health,
Mental Illness
I thought at first this would be a sort of cliche story but I was quite wrong. This is a wonderful story with a wonderful child in it. The child is first seen on the balcony by a man who hasn't left his apartment in twelve years. He can't. But through time and the little girl's plaintive appeal he m...
What an amazing story. A run-down apartment building of tenants that do not know each other, or ever talk that are brought together by the very loud and precocious 9-year old Grace who needs help.For such a fun book, it may be surprising that this is a story that flirts with racism, addiction, homos...
This wasn't a bad little read, it centred on 9 yr old Grace and her neighbours in an attempt to get her Mum clean from drugs. A heartwarming tale of hope.
Free again today! 02/20/2013.Free on Amazon 06/30/2012.