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Encore Award Royal Society of Literature (2007)
Booker Prize nominee (2006)
The novel by the talented Irish writer Maria Joan Hyland is a tense psychological drama, the story of which is told from the perspective of a teenager. John Egan is only 11. He meticulously keeps a "journal of lies" and is rapidly growing up in conditions of a catastrophic lack of parental love and family warmth. The piercing story of an unusual boy leaves a deep feeling in the heart and an uncontrollable desire to cuddle his own child.