When Orla is handed an envelope by her father, she is perplexed by what she finds - a photograph of her parents, taken the summer she was born. Her heavily expectant mother, unusually, is smiling. Between her parents stands a teenage boy, her mother's arm lovingly around him.
Orla later asks her father about the boy's identity, but he refuses to be drawn. Her mother's mood is low again and he doesn't want her upset. So begins the daughter's investigation, back to the summer of 1983, and the story of a young English boy on holidays in rural Ireland. As the circle closes on a web of tragedy and deceit, the truth that emerges will impact on all their lives.
The Boy Between is an expertly crafted, suspenseful and ultimately hopeful story of family secrets, a fateful summer, and the long-buried events of a distant past.
- ISBN10 1473618088
- ISBN13 9781473618084
- Publish Date 4 February 2016 (first published 6 August 2015)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 November 2021
- Publish Country IE
- Imprint Hachette Books Ireland
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 320
- Language English