Twenty-Four Hours EPUB
by Margaret Mahy
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Compelling drama in which 17-year-old Ellis comes to terms with the meaning of death… Ellis is an ordinary 17-year-old; someone who’s planning to finish school and go to university like any other teenager.
The difference is that four months ago, his best friend Simon killed himself.
Still – that was four months ago. Ellis has now ‘got over it’. Except, of course, he hasn’t. Returning to his home town, he gets drawn into a situation in which the ‘old’ Ellis would never have become embrangled.
He gatecrashes a party and persuaded to ‘rescue’ two sisters – Ursa and Leo, driving them back to the Land of Smiles – the ex-motel where they live. From that moment on, nothing is the same again.
The story is narrated hour-by-hour, as Ellis packs a life-time of experiences into the next twenty-four hours.
Giving in to high spirits and booze, Ellis wakes next morning in a strange bed, with a stonking hangover and a shaven head!
He learns that a child has been kidnapped, and is persuaded to help in her rescue… This is a bizarre, surreal and powerful novel in which the reader is taken on the same roller-coaster ride as Ellis.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date:30/01/2014
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- ISBN:9780007439744
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:192 pages
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication Date:30/01/2014
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- ISBN:9780007439744