LoveReading Expert Review of Black Rabbit Summer
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Award 2009. Pete and his childhood friends meet up one last time, for ‘old time’s sake’. But old times are full of secrets, tensions, bitterness and unhappiness. And everyone sees it a bit differently. And not only because of the drugs. A hard hitting and realistic story about the chaos of adolescence.
What the Carnegie judges said:
'The reader can really feel the sticky heat as Brooks builds up the sense of an interminable and stifling summer. He employs the devices of a detective novel to give us a powerful and tense read, whilst brilliantly conveying the inner tensions of his characters’ relationships. A book that really gets inside the minds of teenagers.'
Black Rabbit Summer Synopsis
Pete Boland was busy doing nothing that summer. Then she called. 'Listen, Pete ...you know that funfair, up at the recreation ground ...I thought we could all meet up ...You know, for old times' sake.' And as secrets, bitterness and jealousies resurface, five old friends are plunged into the worst night of their lives.About This Edition
| ISBN: | 9780141319117 |
| Publication date: | 7th August 2008 |
| Author: | Kevin Brooks |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 448 pages |
| Primary Genre | Children's & YA Fiction |
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About Kevin Brooks
Kevin Brooks counts among his many jobs being a crematorium assistant, a refreshments vendor at the London Zoo, and a civil servant. But he always wanted to be a writer. It was the publication of Martyn Pig that changed everything. After being turned down by a number of publishers, Kevin Brooks sent his manuscript to The Chicken House, who jumped on the chance to publish it. They released Martyn Pig in the spring of 2002. In the U.K, the book went on to be short-listed for the Carnegie Medal and win a Branford Boase Award for a first best novel. ...
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