Boy in the Cupboard

by ShaneDunphy (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $3.29

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $4.03

  Three heart-stopping stories of children trapped by their parents' pasts ...Craig, the little boy who can't speak English, isn't allowed to use his real name and hides food around his playschool, afraid he'll be hungry again. His parents are trying to make a fresh start, but their gangland bosses are about to catch up with the family and Craig will pay a terrible price...Edgar is a twelve-year-old boy who nobody wants, not even the staff at the residential unit where he lives. Just when it seems that there might be a way of getting through to Edgar, his mother reveals a secret that changes everything ...Vinnie is a teenage boy who knows exactly what his gangster father is capable of, of how he makes problems disappear. He also knows that he had become a very big problem for his father ...One man's fight to give these children the future they deserve.