![]() ![]() After a while each saps the patience of the other. ![]() Noah gives his charge the benefit of the doubt: he is surely off-balance and out of sync because he is jet-lagged, culture-shocked and has recently lost his grandmother.ĭespite Noah's best efforts, with each passing day Michael shows only flickers of friendliness, and for the most part stays glued to the games on his phone and indifferent to his new surroundings. Michael is sullen, insolent and foul-mouthed. ![]() In the end he takes the boy in, then takes him along to France.Īkin by Emma Donoghue published by Picador. A social worker informs him that, owing to a recent death, he is now the last of Michael's kin.Ĭan he give him a temporary home? Noah's initial bemusement ("In what sense could you really be kin to someone you'd never met?") gives way to reluctance to help, especially on hearing that his "oppositional" great-nephew "makes bids for negative attention ". #Akin /uQiFnKttmG- Emma Donoghue August 21, 2019Ī phone call out of the blue threatens to jeopardise Noah's best-laid plans. Thanks Margaret Lonergan for the gorgeous cover. Publication Sept Canada/US, Oct UK/Ireland. It's here! Books take so much longer to make than babies, in my experience, I can never quite believe one of mine is going to come out till I open the box. ![]()
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