Extrait

Prologue

Jason’s neighbours’ house was much nicer than his own. At home all he ever heard silence. All he ever felt was the pain of his father’s fists colliding with some part of his bod

One day while outside in their adjoining back gardens, he’d befriended the neighbou prettiest girl he’d ever seen. He liked being around her because she was always smiling and perfect white teeth. He wanted to capture that emotion, steal a little piece of it for him

Sometimes, on the days when his father was away at work, he felt something like h him, Mum, and his brother Jack. He loved them both so much that he felt he would do would laugh and play in the garden, and for a time forget that in just a few hours th brought would return.

The neighbour girl would give him and his little brother food. She must have sense known his father tightly rationed everything and his mother was powerless to stop him and his mother was small and weak. That was the way his dad liked it.

His favourite thing about his neighbours’ house, though, was the television. They we in his house. It was against his dad’s rules. He would only ever hear it on at night time had been sent to bed and his father was home from work. At his neighbours’ house television. There were no rules about that.

He’d been waiting in the old shed in the garden that night, knowing his father ha would likely return home in a temper. Jason planned to stop him this time. He woul power to keep him from hurting his brother and mother, even if it meant taking the beati

To pass the time in the shed, and to keep his mind from the pain he would soon marbles and a deck of playing cards, practicing various tricks he’d made up. He alway people, seeing the look of wonder on their faces as he dazzled them with his skills

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