Boy in the Cupboard

by ShaneDunphy (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $3.30

  Petru and Elvira Tomescu and their young son, Litovoi, are a Romanian family, desperate to start afresh in a new country. Yet their past has already caught up with them, and three-year-old Litovoi is about to pay a terrible price ...Gregor Blerinca is Petru Tomescu's boss, and a dangerous criminal. Shane knows, when he asks Blerinca for help with the Tomescus, that he will owe the gangster a favour. But when Blerinca comes to him for advice about his fifteen-year-old son, Vladimir, Shane gets much more than he bargained for ...Edgar is a twelve-year-old boy whom nobody wants, not even the staff at the residential unit where he lives. Shane tries to befriend him, but Edgar is no ordinary boy, and Shane becomes locked in a struggle to save this damaged child from himself. But then Edgar's mother reveals a secret that changes everything ...Melanie is Edgar's social worker, and an old friend of Shane's. When he meets her to discuss working with the troubled boy, she seems tired and upset. Gradually, Shane begins to realise that her problems run far deeper ...We know there are too many stories like these happening in Ireland today. Discover how one man tried to make a difference.