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 Boy A - Jonathan Trigell
Newest Review: ... his friend "Boy B", and as such as been incarcerated in young offenders' institutions and prisons up until the ... more  ... start of the book.
On his release, he has to change his identity for his own protection, choosing the name Jack, and assisted by long-term mentor and social worker Terry moves to a new area to start a new life, under the guise that Terry is his 'uncle'.
Every other chapter, a little more about Jack's past is revealed. In these chapters he is always referred to as Boy A, his real name is never disclosed. We find out what they actually did, the things which drove them to it and what became of his accomplice.
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Boy A - Jonathan Trigell: Gripping, gritty and great! (485 words)
by - written on 26/08/08 (Very useful, 62 readings)
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After enjoying the screen adaptation on Channel 4, I picked up this book at my local library as a bit of light bedtime reading. The book is told through flashbacks and present tense in alternating chapters. Each chapter has a short heading and there are 26 in all going through the alphabet, for example chapter one is titled "A is for apple. Bad apple." These make it quite easy to find your place in the book when you pick it back up because they loosely tell the story. The story itself is about "Boy A", who committed a crime when he was a child, along with his friend "Boy B", and as such as been incarcerated in young ... Read the complete review
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