In "Breaktime", Ditto challenges Morgan to prove that literature is crap and triggers off a chain of events to alter his outlook of life forever. Ditto faces a series of charges from Morgan against literature: that all fiction is Done. Finished. Dead; a sham and a pretence. He undertakes faithfully to record a life in the week of Ditto - with all the chaos of reality thrown in - and his literary creation reveals more about himself than he originally bargained for. In "Dance on My Grave", life in his seaside town is uneventful for Hal Robinson, nothing unusual, exciting or odd ever happens to him - until now that is. Until the summer of his 16th birthday, when he reaches a crossroads of choices in life. He foolishly takes a friend's boat for a day's sailing, gets into difficulty and is rescued by Barry Gorman. Their ensuing relationship results in a tumultous summer for Hal as he experiences the intense emotions of his first teenage love.
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Refreshingly unconventional, an exciting story and a witty game played between author and reader.
It all begins with a challenge. Morgan sneers at Ditto for relying on books as his sole source of information, and defies Ditto to prove that literature is ever related to life. Ditto takes up the challenge, writing an account of what is happening to him. His father has a heart attack, he makes friends with a couple of burglars, gets involved in a drunken brawl and has a life-changing encounter with the girl of his dreams--. True? Or just a story? It's not for Morgan alone to decide--
"Excruciatingly funny as well as touching." --Publishers Weekly
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