Boy Underwater

Author: Adam Baron

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  • : $14.99 AUD
  • : 9780008267018
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
  • : February 2018
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : April 2018
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Barcode 9780008267018
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Description

Boy Underwater is a heartbreaking story about family, friends and secrets. And it's very, very funny.Cymbeline (yes, really!) has never been swimming - not ever, not once - so he's a bit nervous at the prospect of his first school swimming lesson ever. But how hard could it be? He's Googled front crawl and he's found his dad's old pair of trunks. He's totally ready for this.But he's not ready for an accident at the pool to reveal a family mystery that turns his life completely upside down. Only Cym and his friends can solve it because, as usual, the grown-ups aren't telling them anything.For the answers you really need, sometimes you have to go deep . . .

Author description

Adam Baron is the author of five successful novels and has, in his time, been an actor, comedian, journalist and press officer at Channel 4 television (as well as things he's too embarrassed to mention). He now runs the widely respected MA in Creative Writing at Kingston University London. Adam lives in Greenwich, South London, with his wife and three young children. He wrote Boy Underwater (his first novel aimed at younger readers) because they told him to. While still in the flush of youth he knows what his final words are going to be: `clear the table'.