- Title:
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Only Child (MP3)
- Written by:
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Rhiannon Navin
- Read by:
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Kivlighan de Montebello
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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9 hours 11 minutes
- MP3 size:
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400 MB
- Published:
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April 28 2018
- Available Date:
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April 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781509888191
- Genres:
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Fiction; American Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Mystery; Psychological Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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Price
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We went to school that Tuesday like normal. Not all of us came home ...
Huddled in a cloakroom with his classmates and teacher, six-year-old Zach can hear shots ringing through the corridors of his school. A gunman has entered the building and, in a matter of minutes, will have taken 19 lives.
In the aftermath of the shooting, the close knit community and its families are devastated. Everyone deals with the tragedy differently. Zach's father absents himself; his mother pursues a quest for justice – while Zach retreats into his super-secret hideout and loses himself in a world of books and drawing.
Ultimately though, it is Zach who will show the adults in his life the way forward – as, sometimes, only a child can.
'Only Child realises every parent's ultimate fear ... An outstanding debut.'
Harlan Coben, author
'Like Emma Donoghue's Room, Navin's debut takes the risk of narrating a modern tragedy in the voice of a very young player ... A powerful exercise in empathy and perspective.'
Kirkus Reviews
'An astonishing debut.'
Publishers Weekly