The Dare

A compelling quick read from the author of the international bestseller TheBoy in the Striped Pyjamas. — At the start of his school holidays,Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer. But when hismother returns home one afternoon, flanked by two policemen, he knows thatsomething terrible has happened. Mrs. Delaney has accidentally hit a smallboy with her car. The boy is in a coma at the local hospital and nobodyknows if he will ever wake up. Consumed by guilt, Dannya€™smother closes herself off, while Danny and his father are left to pick upthe pieces of their fractured family. Told in John Boynea€™sunique style from the point of view of the twelve-year-old boy, The Dare isa brilliantly compelling story about how one moment can change a familyforever.