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Paperback 384 Pages
Published: 11/06/2020
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'A full-throated song of praise. I loved it' Sherman Alexie

Ireland, 1959. Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well: his mother's death in childbirth.

The wandering life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. His father decides to settle briefly, in a town, where Christy and his cousin can receive proper schooling. But still, always, they are treated as outsiders.

As Christy struggles with his new classmates, he starts to question who he is and where he belongs. But then the discovery of an old newspaper photograph, and a long-buried secret, changes his life for ever.

Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781472272836
Number of pages: 384
Weight: 260 g
Dimensions: 194 x 128 x 26 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

A poignant and magical tale - Keith Donohue

A deeply moving and elegiac look at a vanishing culture. Told in Christy's vernacular but often poetic first-person voice,THE OUTSIDE BOY is gorgeously written and an implicit celebration of Irish storytelling - Booklist

Some of the greatness of Angela's Ashes dampens these pages, maybe as much as is possible for an author for whom this is fiction, not memoir. Beautifully crafted scenes and characters keep the pages turning - Historical Novel Society

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“Poignant, humorous, sad - a triumph of story-telling.”

I read American Dirt and was gripped from start to finish, then ordered this. I absolutely loved this book. I was swept along immediately, back in time and into what seems now like another world. Jeanine Cummins... More

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“Hooked from page one.”

Engaging, beautiful book takes you through a world seen by a boy growing up as a traveller. Aspiring to be loved and accepted, a heart warming story I just couldn’t put down. Loved it.

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