Changes

|publisher=Quercus

|date=February 2015

|amazonus=<amazonus>1623654629</amazonus>

|website=mikerevell.com

This is a gentle book, about love and loss, but that's not to say it won't appeal to more lively readers. Peril and fear are rarely too far away from Liam, and he runs the risk more than once of causing danger and pain through his actions, however well-meant. The rough and tumble of a contemporary school is set alongside the wonder of story-telling sessions led by a skilled and charismatic teacher, and the fact that Liam feels all alone in a family where everyone has their own preoccupations only serves to heighten the tension. But the story is, above all, about memory – that terrible and fickle thing that can allow you the relief of forgetting or force you to confront over and over the mistakes and miseries of the past. A harsh word, uttered in grief, that destroys a person's world; the fading mind of a once energetic and caring woman who no longer recognises her own child, and even the brief and enigmatic words on a tombstone – all aspects of the past with effects still felt in the present. It is a beautiful, delicate story about a boy who is just trying to do the right thing for everyone, and it will provoke much thought and discussion.

{{amazonUStext|amazon=1623654629}}

{{commenthead}}