Ten-year-old Grace knows that her mum loves her, but her mum loves drugs too. And there's only so long Grace can fend off the 'woman from the county' who is threatening to put her into care. Her only hope is...'Billy'.
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About Don't Let Me Go
Grown-man Billy Shine hasn't been out of his apartment for years. People scare him, and the outside world scares him even more. Day in, day out, he lives a perfectly orchestrated silent life within his four walls.
Grown-man Billy Shine hasn't been out of his apartment for years. People scare him, and the outside world scares him even more. Day in, day out, he lives a perfectly orchestrated silent life within his four walls.
Until now...'The Plan': Grace bursts into Billy's life with a loud voice and a brave plan to get her mum clean. And it won't be easy, because they will have to confiscate the one thing her mum holds most dear ...they will have to kidnap Grace.
Catherine Ryan Hyde is the author of several highly acclaimed novels including Pay it Forward, which was named an ALA Book of the Year and made into a major Warner Brothers feature film starring Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt. In 2007 her novel Love in the Present Tense was selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club and became a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller. She lives in Cambia, California.
Grown-man Billy Shine hasn't been out of his apartment for years. People scare him, and the outside world scares him even more.
Don't Let Me Go features in the following genres: Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories, Recommendations
Paperback. £15.29, down from the £16.99 cover price. Print on Demand / Special Order.
Don't Let Me Go was written by Catherine Ryan Hyde and published by Black Swan an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd
Don't Let Me Go has 432 pages
£15.29, reduced from £16.99. Print on Demand / Special Order.
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