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008			150424s2015 enk 000 f eng d
015			_aGBB570514 _2bnb
020			_a9781781254547 (hbk.)
020			_a1781254540 (hbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)918999971
035			_a(Nz-Kotui)3745793
040			_aNLE _beng _erda _cNLE _dOCLCO
082	0	4	_a823.92 _223
100	1		_aBruce, Alastair, _d1972- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aBoy on the wire / _cAlastair Bruce.
300			_a215 pages
520			_a'He is a man who lied, who told a story, a wild, fanciful story, about the death of a child, a hard and unyielding story. It is that, he finds, that he hates most. The story that was told.' In 1983 Paul Hyde, aged ten, dies falling from a ledge in the mountains of the Karoo. His older brother Peter, who falls at the same time, survives but loses all memory of the event. The youngest brother, John, is the only witness. Many years later, John is living in London. He and his wife Rachel, who knows nothing of the tragedy of his past and nothing of his family, make plans to have children of their own. Their life together is disrupted when Peter arrives in London and claims his memory is returning. Pulled back in spite of himself, John returns to South Africa and the home he grew up in. His return makes him question his recollection of the tragedy. Can we ever be certain of events that happened that far in the past, certain we have not completely changed their meaning and our part in them?
655		0	_9301 _aPsychological fiction.
942			_2ddc _cFIC
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