The boy between

Stairs, Susan2015

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Summary

When Orla is handed an envelope by her father, she is perplexed by what she finds - a photograph of her parents, taken the summer before she was born. Her heavily expectant mother, unusually, is smiling. Between her parents stands a teenage boy, her mother's arm lovingly around him. Orla later asks her father about his identity, but he refuses to be drawn. Her mother's mood is low again and he doesn't want her upset. So begins a journey into the past, to rural Ireland in 1983, and a young English boy on a summer holiday. As the circle closes on a web of tragedy and deceit, lives all round are about to be changed in unforeseen ways ...