The infamous Canterbury Estate in Bradford, a hotbed of crime,
drink and drugs, was a law unto itself in the 70s. So when one of
their own was wronged in any way, the community always had its own
way of dealing with it.
The first title in a series of gritty family sagas, Our Vinnie
accounts the dramatic true story of a brother s determination to
avenge his younger sister s rape. Josie was just 11 when her
Vinnie, then 14, was taken away to a detention centre. Distraught
by his absence and left alone with indifferent parents, when she
escapes from one of their rows she naively enters the house of a
neighbour, Melvin, who horrifically leads her upstairs and
overpowers her.
Convinced by her friend Carol, Josie tells her sister Lyndsey
about the rape but, with Vinnie out of the picture, Lyndsey uses
the information for her own ends. When Vinnie returns, hardened by
years inside the system, his outrage on discovering the truth is
severe. And with new abuses continually coming to light, a
cataclysmic series of violent events begins to spiral out of
control
Dramatic and shocking, Our Vinnie is an unbelievable
page-turner, documenting a community forsaken by society, and one
brother s unrelenting determination to take justice into his own
hands."
General
Imprint: |
HarperCollins Publishers
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
November 2014 |
First published: |
February 2015 |
Authors: |
Julie Shaw
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Dimensions: |
197 x 129 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
Pages: |
324 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-00-754224-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
True stories >
General
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LSN: |
0-00-754224-0 |
Barcode: |
9780007542246 |
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