Bookworm

  Author: Donal Ryan  Publisher: Double Day  Publishing Date: 13th August 2026  Many thanks to Random Things Tours and the Publishing team for my copy of the book and a spot on the tour Blurb  Jack is just twelve years old when he rushes down the hill after his mother's car on his bike, desperate to reach her before she reaches the lake. What happens next cannot be undone. Jack's life changes just at the moment he is entering those dizzying years when he will transition from boy to man; when nothing makes sense at the best of times. Yet Jack is not, is never alone. Enveloped as he is by his extended family - his ferociously loving Nana; Grandad, given to sudden bursts of rage; his earthy uncles Haulie and Theo who want to show him what it means to be a man, and irascible cousin JJ who resents him. Then there is beautiful aunt Rose, whose mere presence ignites ever atom in his changing body. But how can a boy with so many questions, in a family with so many secre...