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As kids, Shaun and Daz are inseparable, skipping school, racing bikes, knocking about down by the lake with Katy, Shaun’s first love. Full of life, Shaun runs up against an education system that cannot contain him. He is squeezed and eventually spat out, taking Daz down with him as he self‐destructs.
Twenty years later, Daz is in a wheelchair and has eight weeks to live. Shaun is left to reflect on one gilded summer of love, sex and loyalty that marked the end of his innocence. His memories lead him to track down Katy, in a bid for personal redemption. This is a story of bright lives unfulfilled, of hopes that are snuffed out and then, finally, rekindled.
The Christmas holidays. What starts as a relaxing house party for two
families coming together to celebrate the festive season gradually turns
into a horrifying fight for survival as one by one the children mysteriously
fall ill and begin to turn against their parents with increasingly
disturbing consequences.
I work for Barnes&Noble.com and I wanted to let you all know that Orson Scott Card is going to be posting on our online messageboards - the Book Clubs - next week from December 8-11.