In Secure by Andrew Pack

In Secure by Andrew Pack

Imagine being thirteen years old and getting into a car that’s going to drive you to a building where you’ll be locked up with nine other children. You don’t know what they’ve done, they don’t know what you’ve done. They all seem messed up and scary. All of them have secrets, but none of their secrets are as huge as the one you’re hiding from them. When will you get out? How will you get out? What is it going to be like? You don’t know. All you know is, the next time you wake up, your bedroom door will be locked. Every time you wake up. Ten children locked up, working out how to cope, how to survive, who to trust and who to avoid. One of the children has a book of spells, and all of the spells work. They come with a serious price though, because the children aren’t the only ones locked up in there, and the other prisoner is much much older, more dangerous, more broken and more desperate than any of them. This is a story of a struggle to fit in and a struggle to get out. A story packed with secrets and lies, where a touch on your back could be a flirtatious invitation or it could be a home-made shank, a cry in the night can be homesickness or something far far worse. Magic, theft, fights over pecking order, crushes with a twist and daring jail-breaks. Finding out what makes these children tick, and whether ten broken watches can manage to synchronise together when it really matters. Imagine “Five Children and It”, if the Five Children were juvenile delinquents, and the ‘It’ was more like Steven King’s version. A Young Adult novel, but assuming you ever lived through teenaged years suitable for adults too

Andrew Pack has been writing all of his life, and as a young child he once demanded on a bus that his mum get off because there was a shop he absolutely had to go into. He had with him an exercise book containing his Mr Men style series where all of the characters were sandwich fillings. The shop Andrew insisted he and his mum should enter was William Hill Bookmakers, thinking that they would turn the Sandwich Gang into a book for him. It did not work out that way, though luckily his mum’s hunch on the 4.15 at Newmarket sailed in.

At present Andrew works in family law and writes the legal and social work blog Suesspicious Minds (www.suesspiciousminds.com) which is followed by lawyers, journalists, social workers, parents and judges alike, explaining complicated law in short chunks and accompanied by sarcasm, gags and 80s references. In Secure is his first published novel.

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ISBN 13	9781911586944
ISBN 10	1911586947
Title	In Secure
Author	Andrew Pack
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Unbound
Year published	2018-02-13
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.