Shy by Max Porter

£12.99

Bookseller Review by Elle: 

Angry, poetic, fragmented, bizarre, yet incredibly authentic and true to life…

Take a trip back to the 1990s and spend some time in the mind of troubled teenager Shy – meet his friends, his mum, his step-dad, and the other adults who care for him.

Max Porter writes beautifully as always, and touches on masculinity, class, race, and the power of nature in this touching, and often times brutal, tale of boyhood. 

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Description

This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy.

You mustn’t do that to yourself Shy. You mustn’t hurt yourself like that.

He is wandering into the night listening to the voices in his head: his teachers, his parents, the people he has hurt and the people who are trying to love him.

Got your special meds, nutcase?

He is escaping Last Chance, a home for ‘very disturbed young men’, and walking into the haunted space between his night terrors, his past and the heavy question of his future.