Boy A: Movie Tie-in Edition Paperback Jonathan Trigell

from CBJames

Boy A, the award-winning debut novel by Jonathan Trigell, is loosely based on a real murder case. A very young boy was led away from a shopping mall by two ten year olds who then murdered him. The two boys, first identified as Child A, and Child B, were tried for murder in adult court and sentenc...

from sanddancer

Two boys kill another child and become national hate figures. This is the story of one of those boys after he has been released with a new identity. It is a difficult subject but nonetheless an interesting one. The narrative is split between Jack in his new life, the perspectives of other people ...

from jkdavies

thoughtful and wistful... Spoiler alert... I am not sure how much of the narrative is carried by the insinuations of innocence of Boy A in the story, how much you want to believe everything will work out for him as the story describes Boy B's character. I just finished Scaredy Cat by Marc Billin...

from captbunzo

Boy A by Jonathan Trigell is a compelling story of the journey that a child might take when leaving prison in the body of an adult man. The main character of this book has been convicted as a child of committing a horrible crime. As the story weaves back and forth between the past and present, we...

from Fluffyblue

I have wanted to read this book for a long time. It was well written; there was nothing in the writing that made me feel uncomfortable or irritated. The story was interesting and had echoes of the story of two boys in the UK who abducted and killed a young child. I really felt for the main charac...