Life! Death! Prizes!
May, Stephen, 1964-2012
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Billy's Mum is dead. He knows - because he reads about it in magazines - that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than hers, but for nineteen-year-old Billy and his little brother, Oscar, their mother's death in a bungled street robbery is the most random and tragic and stupid thing that could possibly have happened to them. Now Billy must be both mother and father to Oscar, and despite what his well-meaning aunt, the PTA mothers, the social services and Oscar's own prodigal father all think, he knows he is more than up to the job, thank you very much. The boys' new world is built out of chaos and fierce love, but it's also a world that teeters perilously on its axis. And as Billy's obsession with his mother's missing killer grows, he risks losing sight of the one thing that really matters... Funny, bittersweet and unforgettable, Life! Death! Prizes! is a story of grief, resilience and brotherly love.
Main title:
Life! Death! Prizes! / Stephen May.
Author:
May, Stephen, 1964-, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2012.
Collation:
245 pages ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
1408831198
Dewey class:
823.92
Local class:
AFPBKJF MAY 10
Language:
English
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BRN:
733210
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