Keeping Mum

Danny Malooley's life is falling apart: he's a single parent with an eleven-year-old son, Will, who hasn't spoken since the death of his mother in a car crash fourteen months ago. He's being pursued by a landlord who is threatening to set his henchman on him if he doesn't pay his arrears and, to make matters worse, he's lost his job on a building site. After seeing street performers in his local park apparently raking it in, he spends his last fiver on a costume that's obviously been vomited on more than once and becomes a dancing panda...until something unexpected happens that makes the humiliation of his terrible rhythm all worth it. When Danny spots his son being bullied in the park one day and goes to his rescue, Will talks to him for the first time since his mother's death, unaware that the panda is in fact his father. Nervous of revealing his true identity in case Will stops talking to him, Danny befriends his son in the panda disguise. But Danny can't keep up the ruse forever. Can Danny dance his way out of debt and finally reconnect with his son?

Product details

• Authors: James Gould-Bourn
• Publisher: Trapeze
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.06.2020
• EAN: 9781409191254
• ISBN: 978-1-4091-9125-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 214 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, FICTION / Family Life / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Fatherhood, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement, Coping with death & bereavement, Advice on parenting, Modern and contemporary fiction, Father’s Day