SIGNED FIRST EDITION: Shy – Max Porter

With boundless empathy and psychological precision, the award-winning author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny delivers a breathtaking vignette of a troubled young boy caught between the ghosts of his past and the enormous questions about his future. \n \nThis is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy. \n \nYou mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You mustn't hurt yourself like that. \n \nHe is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him. \n \nGot your special meds, nutcase? \n \nHe is escaping Last Chance, a home for 'very disturbed young men', and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past and the heavy question of his future.