TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams, Robert 
TI  - Luke and Jon
SN  - 9780571274888
U1  -  226.4 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Faber and Faber
KW  - Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
N1  - Betty Trask Award 2011
N2  - Luke's mum is dead. He finds himself in a small, scruffy northern hill town, with a near silent father, who he fears might be trying to drink himself to death. Then he meets Jon. Jon is massively strange. He wears 1950s clothes, has a side-parting and a twitch. The kids at school call him 'Slackjaw'. When Luke discovers his secret, Jon changes his life in more ways than he can imagine. Luke and Jon is a coming of age novel about family, bereavement and how lives can change forever in a single second. Written with great power, warmth and humour, it signals a hugely engaging and original new voice. Compelling and emotionally acute, it is a unique debut
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