What I did
By: Christopher Wakling
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780753190203; 9780753190210
Subjects: Child welfare; Fiction; Families
Description: When Billy Wright runs across a busy road, his world is altered irreversibly. A passer-by has stopped to watch the scene. She has been Billy's father catch up with him and smack him. Within an hour she has informed social services, plunging the family into a living nightmare which begins with a social worker's visit and escalates through a series of misunderstandings. What I Did is a powerful novel about the unseen consequences of a split-second decision, about childhood interrupted and the lengths we go to to protect the ones we love. It is frequently heartbreaking, blackly funny and utterly compelling.
Notes: Standard print ed. originally published: London : John Murray, 2011.