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Winner of the Angus Book Award, THE EDGE is crackly with tension. How will this mother and son escape their abuser and start a new life?
We've got to go. Now.
It's early morning and Danny's mother is at his bedside, urging him to get up. They're on the run from Chris, his mother's boyfriend, a violent man who beats them both up, and won't let them go.
Chris pursues Danny and his mother from London to the north, where they take refuge with Danny's grandparents. But even there, nothing is safe. Danny is conspicuous as the only mixed-race boy in their small community, and with the ever-present threat of discovery, he has to learn how to live continually on the edge.
A tense and chilling story with terrific drama, THE EDGE shows the depth of character and the understanding of the predicaments of children today that gives Alan Gibbons his special quality.
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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. He lives in Liverpool with his wife and has four grown up children. He travels globally and is known the length and breadth of the country for his high profile Campaign for the Book and school visits.
Visit his website at http://www.alangibbons.com, read his blog at http://alangibbons.net, follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mygibbo, Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/alan.gibbons.35 and Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/people/71279646@N08.
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Jerome Pride brings especially difficult characters to life in this fine Young Adult novel about abuse, bigotry, and coming-of-age. The story is written in chapters of alternating points of view, often giving each character's differing perspectives on the same event. Pride becomes teenager Danny and his abused mother, Cathy, making listeners feel their terror as they escape from Chris, her psychotic abusive ex-husband. We hear Chris's side, as well, his self-delusions and his brutality as Pride shows his dark menace. There are a host of other fascinating people, young and old, and Pride invests them all with something vital. Short-listed for the 2003 Carnegie Medal, the audiobook offers strong writing, powerful honesty, and Pride's excellent performance. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherOrion Children's
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1842550942
- ISBN 13 9781842550946
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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