Lukes Mutter ist tot, sein Vater ertränkt seinen Kummer im Alkohol. Ein ziemlich einsames Leben also, bis zu dem Tag an dem er Jon trifft. Jon mit seinen seltsamen Klamotten aus den 50er Jahren, seinem Seitenscheitel und seiner Krawatte. Ein berührendes Debüt über eine ungewöhnliche Freundschaft, Verlust und das Erwachsenwerden.

Informationen zum Autor Robert Williams grew up in Clitheroe, Lancashire and currently lives in Manchester. His first novel, Luke and Jon , won a Betty Trask Award, was translated into six languages and called 'a hugely impressive debut' in the Daily Telegraph . His second novel, How the Trouble Started , was shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Fiction. He has worked in a secondary school library, as a bookseller for Waterstones, and has written and released music under the name The Library Trust. Klappentext LUKE AND JON is a coming of age novel about family, bereavement and how lives can change forever in a single second. Written with great power, warmth and humour, it signals a hugely engaging and original new voice. Luke's mum is dead. He finds himself in a small, scruffy northern hill town, with a near silent father, who he fears might be trying to drink himself to death. Then he meets Jon. When Luke discovers his secret, Jon changes his life in more ways than he can imagine. Luke and Jon , by Robert Williams, is an arresting debut about friendship, grief and love. Zusammenfassung When Luke discovers his secret, Jon changes his life in more ways than he can imagine. Luke and Jon is a coming of age novel about family, bereavement and how lives can change forever in a single second.

Vorwort
Luke and Jon, by Robert Williams, is an arresting debut about friendship, grief and love.

Autorentext
Robert Williams grew up in Clitheroe, Lancashire and currently lives in Manchester. His first novel, Luke and Jon, won a Betty Trask Award, was translated into six languages and called 'a hugely impressive debut' in the Daily Telegraph. His second novel, How the Trouble Started, was shortlisted for the Portico Prize for Fiction. He has worked in a secondary school library, as a bookseller for Waterstones, and has written and released music under the name The Library Trust.

Klappentext

Luke''s mum is dead. He finds himself in a small, scruffy northern hill town, with a near silent father, who he fears might be trying to drink himself to death. Then he meets Jon.

Jon is massively strange. He wears 1950s clothes, has a side-parting and a twitch. The kids at school call him ''Slackjaw''. When Luke discovers his secret, Jon changes his life in more ways than he can imagine.

Luke and Jon is a coming of age novel about family, bereavement and how lives can change forever in a single second. Written with great power, warmth and humour, it signals a hugely engaging and original new voice. Compelling and emotionally acute, it is a unique debut.

Zusammenfassung
When Luke discovers his secret, Jon changes his life in more ways than he can imagine. Luke and Jon is a coming of age novel about family, bereavement and how lives can change forever in a single second.