Star

It is hard to find anything joyful in the painful life of Jez Turner; he is parentless, abused in a Home run by a tyrant Big Mother and bullied by a vicious inmate, Hodge. There are very few bright spots in his day. Miss Chips, his form teacher, is a caring adult, Macker is a good, if deeply disturbed mate and Mags wants to help him escape his troubles, if he’d only let her. Then there is his imagined/secret friend in the skies, Star. And there’s the power of fire.

Crammed with vivid incident, told in literally sparkling language and imagery, this is a must for readers who require something to get their minds around. Amidst some disturbingly cruel action the imagination triumphs and proves that ‘sometime you have to do a bad thing to make good things happen’. A very significant first novel.