Take a sneak peek at Pigeon English [closed]
Deeply funny, moving, idiosyncratic and unforgettable, Pigeon English introduces a major new literary talent. Due to be published in March, Bloomsbury have ten copies to give away by the end of the month.
To be in with a chance of snagging yourself a copy read on…
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Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on an inner-city housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers – the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen – blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him.
With equal fascination for the local gang – the Dell Farm Crew – and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of his new life in England: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of inner-city survival.
But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal for witnesses draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own. In doing so, he unwittingly endangers the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to try and keep them safe.
A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon English is a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls.
Simply send an email to sneakpeek@bloomsbury.com by the 1st February and ten winners will be selected at random. Please include your name and address so they can send you a copy if you win.
January 31st, 2011 at 9:42 am
This sounds like a fascinating read that deals with life in inner cities.Cant wait to read the rest of it!!