When his single mother dies of a heroin overdose, fourteen-year-old Nick is sent into England's institutional care system, where he endures harsh punishment, sexual abuse, and witnesses horrors on a daily basis before emerging, emotionally scarred but still alive. Loosely based on "Oliver Twist."
- ISBN10 080509203X
- ISBN13 9780805092035
- Publish Date 7 December 2010 (first published 4 June 2009)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Henry Holt & Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 403
- Language English