Spaces

Of all the spaces a child might occupy silence is the worst. SPACES Spaces tells the story of Eliot Thomas a boy troubled at school and troubled at home who only finds solace when one night he secretly observes a prostitute at work and decides whatever the cost to take his turn and make her his. Set in 1982 in an English seaside town the novel explores the spaces children occupy absent of grown-ups physical as well as conceptual language sex silence violence abuse etc. It occurred to him then that memories were a bit like clouds: they were not constant things but had a habit of changing shape-even while you watched-remaining true for but a moment before breaking up or dissolving to nothing-never to be recalled. Gritty and uncompromising Spaces could be regarded as a modern day Kes. Relevant and unsettling...every parent should read this. A genuine page turner with some proper laugh out loud moments which is always gold.