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'For the past five weeks I'd prayed that I'd never see my brother's name spelt out in poppies. In the weeks that followed I often wished I had.' Jammy and Sonny McGann are brothers, but that's where the similarities end. One is calm when the other is angry; one has a plan while the other lives purely in the moment. When Jammy returns from Afghanistan a very different man to the one who left, it's Sonny who is left to hold things together. But just how far will he go to save the brother who always put him first? Inspired by S.E. Hinton's The Outsidersand by the battles facing young soldiers all over the world, this is a devastating novel about brotherhood and sacrifice, from the award-winning author of Being Billyand Saving Daisy. ** Being Billywon the 2012 weRead Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and Branford Boase Award. ** Visit Phil Earle's author website at www.philearle.com. 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 Billyand Saving Daisy. 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. %%%'For the past five weeks I'd prayed that I'd never see my brother's name spelt out in poppies. In the weeks that followed I often wished I had.' Jammy and Sonny McGann are brothers, but that's where the similarities end. One is calm when the other is angry; one has a plan while the other lives purely in the moment. When Jammy returns from Afghanistan a very different man to the one who left, it's Sonny who is left to hold things together. But just how far will he go to save the brother who always put him first? Inspired by S.E. Hinton's The Outsidersand by the battles facing young soldiers all over the world, this is a devastating novel about brotherhood and sacrifice, from the award-winning author of Being Billyand Saving Daisy. ** Being Billywon the 2012 weRead Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and Branford Boase Award. ** Visit Phil Earle's author website at www.philearle.com. 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 Billyand Saving Daisy. 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.… (mais)
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Told from the point of view of 2 brothers who live on an estate in England. Jammy has signed up with his best mate ( his girlfriend's brother) to fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan as soon as he turns 18. His younger brother Sonny is 16 and promises to look after his girlfriend Cam until Jammy gets back. Told in alternating chapters, Jammy is confronted by the horrors of war when he witnesses a young boy to whom he gave a soccer ball, blown apart by the same ball (now loaded with IUDs) and then further terrible things happen. Meanwhile back in England, Sonny falls for Cam and tries to keep the "gang" together but one of them drifts off into a world of hard drugs. When Jammy eventually comes home, he is not the same person he was before, and when everyone starts calling him a hero, his PTSD catches up with him and with the news about Sonny and Cam he completely snaps. The majority of this story is Sonny's - he has the most chapters and especially at the end, we hear his thoughts while he chases Jammy through the estate when he goes on a wrecking spree. This makes the book somewhat unbalanced - you feel like the author is writing too much about what THEY know - i.e life on the estate and therefore the Afghanistan part doesn't quite ring true. Earle is , I think, trying to shed light on why so many soldiers suffer from PTSD and at the same time, he is looking at the definition of a "hero" - why should you be called one if you don't think you have done anything heroic? For older readers due to the sex between Sonny and Cam, the drug use - pot and heroin - and the crimes committed by the gang. ( )
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'For the past five weeks I'd prayed that I'd never see my brother's name spelt out in poppies. In the weeks that followed I often wished I had.' Jammy and Sonny McGann are brothers, but that's where the similarities end. One is calm when the other is angry; one has a plan while the other lives purely in the moment. When Jammy returns from Afghanistan a very different man to the one who left, it's Sonny who is left to hold things together. But just how far will he go to save the brother who always put him first? Inspired by S.E. Hinton's The Outsidersand by the battles facing young soldiers all over the world, this is a devastating novel about brotherhood and sacrifice, from the award-winning author of Being Billyand Saving Daisy. ** Being Billywon the 2012 weRead Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and Branford Boase Award. ** Visit Phil Earle's author website at www.philearle.com. 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 Billyand Saving Daisy. 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. %%%'For the past five weeks I'd prayed that I'd never see my brother's name spelt out in poppies. In the weeks that followed I often wished I had.' Jammy and Sonny McGann are brothers, but that's where the similarities end. One is calm when the other is angry; one has a plan while the other lives purely in the moment. When Jammy returns from Afghanistan a very different man to the one who left, it's Sonny who is left to hold things together. But just how far will he go to save the brother who always put him first? Inspired by S.E. Hinton's The Outsidersand by the battles facing young soldiers all over the world, this is a devastating novel about brotherhood and sacrifice, from the award-winning author of Being Billyand Saving Daisy. ** Being Billywon the 2012 weRead Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and Branford Boase Award. ** Visit Phil Earle's author website at www.philearle.com. 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 Billyand Saving Daisy. 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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The majority of this story is Sonny's - he has the most chapters and especially at the end, we hear his thoughts while he chases Jammy through the estate when he goes on a wrecking spree. This makes the book somewhat unbalanced - you feel like the author is writing too much about what THEY know - i.e life on the estate and therefore the Afghanistan part doesn't quite ring true. Earle is , I think, trying to shed light on why so many soldiers suffer from PTSD and at the same time, he is looking at the definition of a "hero" - why should you be called one if you don't think you have done anything heroic?
For older readers due to the sex between Sonny and Cam, the drug use - pot and heroin - and the crimes committed by the gang. (