Nicholas Dane
By: Melvin Burgess.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780805092035
Subjects: Coming of age -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Sexual abuse -- Fiction; Child abuse -- Fiction; Emotional problems -- Fiction; England -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth II, 1952- -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: When his single mother dies of a heroin overdose, fourteen-year-old Nick is sent into England's institutional care system, where he endures harsh punishment, sexual abuse, and witnesses horrors on a daily basis before emerging, emotionally scarred but still alive. Loosely based on "Oliver Twist."