The Edge

Informationen zum Autor Alan Gibbons is a full-time writer and a visiting speaker and lecturer at schools, colleges and literary events nationwide, including the major book festivals: Edinburgh, Northern Children's Book Festival, Swansea, Cheltenham, Sheffield and Salford. Alan is a key supporter of a high-profile, nationwide campaign to champion libraries and librarianship and to reevaluate government commitment to educational spending. He lives in Liverpool with his wife and four children. Alan is an honorary CILIP member. Visit Alan's website at www.alangibbons.com, read his blog at alangibbons.net, follow him on Twitter @mygibbo, Facebook www.facebook.com/alan.gibbons.35 and Flickr www.flickr.com/people/71279646@N08. Klappentext Danny is a boy on the edge. A boy teetering on the brink of no return, living in fear.Cathy is his mother. She's been broken by fear.Chris Kane is fear - and they belong to him.But one day they escape. They're looking for freedom, for a promised land where they can start really living. Instead they find prejudice, and danger of another kind. Uncompromising and disturbing, Alan Gibbons' novel positively crackles with tension as he writes about a mother and her son desperate to start a new life.Winner of the Angus Book Award 2004 and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal."a brilliant thriller . . . No film or televising could compete with the immediacy of this intense plotting." Lindsey Fraser, Sunday HeraldCrackling with tension, THE EDGE is a novel about a mother and son desperate to start a new life. Zusammenfassung Crackling with tension, THE EDGE is a novel about a mother and son desperate to start a new life.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Gibbons, Gibbons Alan, Roland Smith
• Publisher: Orion Children's Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 12
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.05.2007
• EAN: 9781842550946
• ISBN: 978-1-84255-094-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism, JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Parents, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Thrillers, Thrillers (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics, Interest age: from c 12 years, Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories