Description

The major next step from the bestselling author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny – the polyphonic story of a troubled teenager, with all of the humanity and trademark invention we expect from one of Britain’s most exciting writers.

From the bestselling author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny – a novel about guilt, rage, imagination and boyhood.

This the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy.
You mustn’t do that to yourself Shy. You mustn’t hurt yourself like that.
He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him.
Got your special meds, nutcase?
He is escaping Last Chance, a home for ‘very disturbed young men’, and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past and the heavy question of his future.
The night is huge and it hurts.
Shy is a novel about being lost in the dark, and realising you are not alone.