Die Geschichte eines außergewöhnlichen Ausreißerpaars: Bruder Sebastian, mit bürgerlichem Namen Michael Lamb, ist Erzieher in einem katholischen Internat für sogenannte schwererziehbare Kinder in Irland. Der zehnjährige, unter epileptischen Anfällen leidende Owen ist sein Zögling. Zwischen ihnen entwickelt sich eine Art Freundschaft. Lamb rebelliert gegen die Erziehungsmethoden seines Vorgesetzten und flieht zusammen mit Owen nach England. Die Polizei sieht es als Kidnapping ...

Informationen zum Autor Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has written five previous collections of stories and five novels, including Grace Notes , which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Midwinter Break , the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Novel of the Year. He has written versions of his fiction for other media - radio and television plays, screenplays and libretti. Klappentext On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. But as the outside world closes in around them - as time, money and opportunity run out - Michael finds himself moving towards a solution that is as uncompromising as it is inspired by love. Zusammenfassung On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. But as the outside world closes in around them - as time, money and opportunity run out - Michael finds himself moving towards a solution that is as uncompromising as it is inspired by love.

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Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has written five previous collections of stories and five novels, including Grace Notes, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Midwinter Break, the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Novel of the Year. He has written versions of his fiction for other media - radio and television plays, screenplays and libretti.

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On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the youngest brothers, the regime is without hope, and when he inherits a small legacy he defies his elders and runs away, taking with him a twelve-year-old boy, Owen Kane. Radio Eireann call it a kidnapping. For Michael the act is the beginning of Owen's salvation. Posing as father and son, they concentrate on discovering the happiness that is so unfamiliar to them both. But as the outside world closes in around them - as time, money and opportunity run out - Michael finds himself moving towards a solution that is as uncompromising as it is inspired by love.