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Heroic

`For the past five weeks I`d prayed that I`d never see my brother`s name spelt out in poppies. In the weeks that followed I often wished I had.` Jammy and Sonny McGann are brothers, but that`s where the similarities end. One is calm when the other is angry; one has a plan while the other lives purely in the moment. When Jammy returns from Afghanistan a very different man to the one who left, it`s Sonny who is left to hold things together. But just how far will he go to save the brother who always put him first? Inspired by S.E. Hinton`s “The Outsiders” and by the battles facing young soldiers all over the world, this is a devastating novel about brotherhood and sacrifice, from the award-winning author of “Being Billy” and “Saving Daisy”. “Being Billy” won the 2012 weRead Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children`s Book Prize and Branford Boase Award. Phil Earle was born, raised and schooled in Hull. His first job was as a care worker in a children`s home, an experience that influenced the ideas behind “Being Billy” and “Saving Daisy”.He then trained as a drama therapist and worked in a therapeutic community in south London, caring for traumatized and abused adolescents. After a couple of years in the care sector, Phil chose the more sedate lifestyle of a bookseller, and now works in children`s publishing. Phil lives in south-east London with his wife and children, but Hull will always be home.

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