Cover of Clay

Book 2013

Clay

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Publisher
Windsor
Language
English
Published
2013
  • Urban parks
  • Friendship
  • City and town life
  • Grandmothers
  • Fiction
  • Fiction, family life
  • Fiction, general

A boy creeps down from a high-rise block at dawn to see the prints left by a fox on the frosty grass. He is TC, eight years old and skipping school. At school and at home he is barely missed. Sophia, seventy-eight, is writing to her granddaughter Daisy, whose privileged upbringing means she exists in a different world to that of TC. Jozef is unable to forget the farm he left behind in Poland, the woods and fields he grew up with still a part of him. When he meets TC in the park one night he finds a kindred spirit, both lonely, both looking for something, both lost.