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Being Billy (Paperback)
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Being Billy (Paperback)
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List price R279
Loot Price R227
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Being Billy is the award-winning first novel by Phil Earle.
***Heroic, Phil Earle's hugely anticipated third novel is out on 24
April 2013*** Faces flashed before my eyes. And for every face
there was a time that they had let me down. Each punch that landed
was revenge, my chance to tell them I hadn't forgotten what they
did. Eight years in a care home makes Billy Finn a professional
lifer. And Billy's angry - with the system, the social workers, and
the mother that gave him away. As far as Billy's concerned, he's on
his own. His little brother and sister keep him going, though they
can't keep him out of trouble. But he isn't being difficult on
purpose. Billy's just being Billy. He can't be anything else. Can
he? 'Phil Earle writes starkly but sensitively about damaged
children in this brilliant page-turning novel. It moved me to
tears' - Jacqueline Wilson 'Being Billy was a total page-turner -
authentic and gritty. Billy's voice doesn't falter . . . spiky,
brave and compassionate' - Jenny Downham, author of Before I Die
'Moving and powerful, I loved it' - Sophie McKenzie Phil Earle was
born, raised and schooled in Hull. His first job was as a care
worker in a children's home, an experience that influenced the
ideas behind Being Billy. He then trained as a drama therapist and
worked in a therapeutic community in south London, caring for
traumatized and abused adolescents. After a couple of years in the
care sector, Phil chose the more sedate lifestyle of a bookseller,
and now works in children's publishing. Phil lives in south-east
London with his wife and children, but Hull will always be home.
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