The Borrower
Author: Makkai, Rebecca
ISBN: 9780099538127
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 18 Sep 2012
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
A sparkling debut novel about the stories we read and the ones we tell ourselves
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favourite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly anti-gay classes. When Lucy finds Ian camped out in the library after hours with a backpack of provisions and an escape plan, she allows herself to be hijacked by him and the pair embark on a spontaneous road trip. But is it just Ian who is running away? And should Lucy really be trying to save a boy from his own parents?
ISBN: 9780099538127
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 18 Sep 2012
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
A sparkling debut novel about the stories we read and the ones we tell ourselves
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper and kidnapped when her favourite patron, ten-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly anti-gay classes. When Lucy finds Ian camped out in the library after hours with a backpack of provisions and an escape plan, she allows herself to be hijacked by him and the pair embark on a spontaneous road trip. But is it just Ian who is running away? And should Lucy really be trying to save a boy from his own parents?
