num_pages: 156
description: “ Lamb will move you by the grace of its prose and by its honesty and emotional accuracy. It is not easy to write about innocence in a world like ours but Bernard MacLaverty has done it. This is a beautiful novel.” ―John Gabree, Newsday When Brother Sebastian, nee Michael Lamb, runs away from a bleak reformatory, taking with him twelve-year-old Owen Kane, the media and the police call it a kidnapping. For Lamb, though, it is a rescue of a formerly abused boy from a place of no hope, a last grasp at an elusive happiness. But as the outside world closes in, as time and money run out, Lamb finds himself moving towards a solution that is as shocking as it is loving.
language: English
title: Lamb
titlecomplete: Lamb (Norton Paperback Fiction)
genres: 20th Century, Classics, Literary Fiction, School, Novels, Irish Literature, Religion, Fiction, Ireland, British Literature
ratings_count: 527
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company