The brave
By: Nicholas Evans
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780751539202
Subjects: Recollection (Psychology); Fiction; Family secrets; Boarding school students; Brothers and sisters; Fathers and sons; Soldiers; Civilian war casualties; Trials (Military offenses); Social conditions
Description: The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a quirky loner, obsessed with cowboys and Indians, needs all the bravery he can summon. Salvation comes when his glamorous actress sister is swept off to Hollywood by one of his heroes, TV cowboy Ray Montane. But with the Cold War looming, the sinister side of Tinseltown seeps through and Tommy and Diane soon find themselves in jeopardy. Forty years on, Tommy has to confront his boyhood ghosts when his own son finds himself charged with murder.
Notes: Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 2010.