Luke's mum is dead. He finds himself in a small, scruffy northern hill town, with a near silent father, who he fears might be trying to drink himself to death. Then he meets Jon.
Jon is massively strange. He wears 1950s clothes, has a side-parting and a twitch. The kids at school call him 'Slackjaw'. When Luke discovers his secret, Jon changes his life in more ways than he can imagine.
Luke and Jon is a coming of age novel about family, bereavement and how lives can change forever in a single second. Written with great power, warmth and humour, it signals a hugely engaging and original new voice. Compelling and emotionally acute, it is a unique debut.
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LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- On a Hill
- April 11th, 4.27 p.m.
- A big grin
- Melanin
- Brian Stuart
- Your home is at risk if …
- Duerdale
- This is my house
- Primary colours
- It’s not what I asked for
- Painting rocks
- A hug on a hill
- Funeral
- His name is Jon
- He just started showing up
- Whisky in the Jar
- Panthers and Pluto
- Dad and Jon
- Lollop
- I dreamt about you last night and fell out of bed twice
- Are you ready?
- Dry heave
- Upchuck
- You can only run so fast down a steep hill
- We only want to help
- Gaskin, hock
- An awful thing to think
- Work and industry
- Brick windows
- All carved up
- Clumsy creatures at dawn
- Bannister
- The clearing
- New trainers
- Lithium
- A wonderful artist/Slack Jaw
- Wild, wooden and white
- And then the letter came
- It wasn’t
- P.P.P.P.P.P.Painting
- Well-being
- Fat wrists
- Bad backs and sore arms
- Unexpected speed
- Coloured lines on shiny floors
- Latvia
- Black roads
- I kicked a boy
- Skin and bones
- I played a trick
- Pamphlets, leaflets and forms
- White lies and hard truths
- Chuck
- Hospital garden bench
- Climb and slide
- Mr and Mrs Theobalds
- Red arrows
- Under the iron bridge
- Ramshackle
- Interiors need updating
- White walls and red throws
- Bring the camera
- Portakabin calm
- Silent and grey
- Idiot wind
- Iron and fire
- Scattering ashes
- The sound of silence
- Local artist, Gerald Redridge
- Open
- Going forward …
- Goodbye
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright
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