Children's & YA
Just a Small Town
by Paul Linggood
Description
A small town that could be anywhere: industry is in decline, streets are in decay, many have left, while those left behind take short-term joy in drugs.
Four young people are among the left behind.
Alex consumes heroin to escape his abusive father. Jim hides from guilt after the death of the friend he didn’t save. Chelsi’s brother killed a local boy, and ostracism pushes her towards a rival gang, prostitution and loneliness. Danny is a hustler but needs protection from the drug gang that supplies him.
Can any of them survive the addiction, gang life, isolation and manipulation?
Their small town could be anywhere.
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Worldwide available
Reviews
"Brings a feral world to life." Helen Marshall, The Migration
“Compulsive reading.” Mick Finlay, The Arrowood Mystery Series
“Each helpless soul, from the middle-aged labourers down the pub, to the hustling teenagers, down to the addicts and prostitutes on the street, are woven together by one common denominator of hard drugs.” Stephen Scarcliffe, The Chemical Estate series
Author Biography
Paul dropped out of school at 16, joined a gang and drugs and violence became a part of his life. His life changed when he met a girl, went to night school, studied for a BA in English Literature and followed this with an MA in Creative Writing.
"My friend was stabbed by another of my friends when I was 17 and this had a massive impact on me. I went to a pretty bad place for a while but managed to come out the other side.”
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2020
Bookline & Thinker
Hookline Books is our fiction imprint - all authors have attended writing classes to post-graduate university level. All manuscripts are approved by book groups before being accepted for publication. Non-fiction publisher specialising in self-help, travel and social history.
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- Publisher/Imprint Bookline and Thinker / Hookline Books
- ISBN/Identifier 9781916410398
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 7.99 GBP
- Pages180
- ReadershipTeenage/Young Adult
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleEnglish
- Page size204 x 126
