David is thirteen and confused. His mum has left with her lover and dumped David on his grandparents. David's grandfather, Jimmy, is seventy. He spends his days at the social club grumbling with his three best friends, all of them Jewish-Australian survivors of the enforced labour camps of the WWII Thai-Burma Railroad. But behind their playful backbiting and irresistible wit, Jimmy and his friends are haunted by the ghosts of long-dead comrades, and the only person Jimmy can confide in is a thirteen-year-old from a different world...
- ISBN10 1322399042
- ISBN13 9781322399041
- Publish Date 1 January 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 9 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Atlantic Books (UK)
- Format eBook
- Language English