SuitabookFriendship across difficult circumstances
Three strangers become connected through a shared secret while carrying different family and housing pressures.
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Patrice Lawrence - Author
A gripping, humane mystery follows Ayrton, Stanley and Sen as family secrets bring them together. Its emotional centre is friendship: the three young people face very different pressures while trying to understand adults and their own identities.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA gripping, humane mystery follows Ayrton, Stanley and Sen as family secrets bring them together. Its emotional centre is friendship: the three young people face very different pressures while trying to understand adults and their own identities.
Three strangers become connected through a shared secret while carrying different family and housing pressures.
Ayrton’s history shapes his mother’s protectiveness, while Stanley’s grandmother is hidden from him by family silence.
Sen and her mother have housing but risk returning to the streets if Sen upsets their landlady.
Consider whether the reader would welcome emotionally demanding storylines involving family separation, secrecy and housing insecurity.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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