Fourteen-year-old John lives with his single mother and her boyfriend, a man who is violent towards him whenever John's mother is not around. John believes that if he tells his mother about the abuse, she will side with "the man who is not my father". There's a lot of pain, humour and horror in this book before John resolves his relationship with his mother and lets her begin to know him.
- ISBN10 0141314060
- ISBN13 9780141314068
- Publish Date 5 September 2002 (first published 28 March 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 July 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Puffin Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 272
- Language English