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Lottery Boy by Michael Byrne – review

Written By Unknown on Friday, March 25, 2016 | 11:08 AM

‘You will find the book really hard to put down’

I loved this book. It is a real eye opener about how some young people have to live their lives. It has tremendous pace, a little humour and a lot of heart-wrenching sadness along with lively characters that are very real.

Bradley, known as Bully, lives on the streets of London with his dog Jack, a bitch. After his mother’s death he felt unable to continue living in the flat that they had shared with her boyfriend Phil and his Bully’s half sister Cortnie. He has no one to trust apart from Jack, the dog his mum let him keep after having dragged her from under a four wheel drive in a car park. I liked Bully from the start of the story because even though he begs for money and sometimes steals, he is really gutsy and doesn’t complain about the terrible blow that life has dealt him.

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