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Nicholas Dane - Melvin Burgess
Nicholas Dane
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When fourteen-year-old Nicholas Dane’s mother dies, social services sends him to a home for boys where intimidation and violence keep order. After a number of fights and brutal punishments, Nick thinks that life can’t possibly get any worse . . . until he realizes that the home’s respected deputy... show more
When fourteen-year-old Nicholas Dane’s mother dies, social services sends him to a home for boys where intimidation and violence keep order. After a number of fights and brutal punishments, Nick thinks that life can’t possibly get any worse . . . until he realizes that the home’s respected deputy head, who has been grooming him with sweets and solace, has something more frightening in mind.             Acclaimed writer and truth-teller Melvin Burgess brings us, with Dickensian scope and compelling narrative drive, his most ambitious book yet.
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9781429947862 (1429947861)
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
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Kaethe
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When people start opining on the pages of the Wall Street Journal about how dark and disturbing YA fiction is, this is the sort of book you'd expect them to hold up. Because it is just as dark and disturbing as it can be. Nick's single mother, a sometime user of heroin dies of an overdose right in t...
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