Closed doors
By: Lisa O'Donnell
Publisher: Ulverscroft
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781444821857
Subjects: Boys; Fiction; Family secrets; Secrecy
Description: Eleven-year-old Michael Murray is the best at two things: keepy-uppies, and keeping secrets. His family think he is too young to hear grown-up stuff, but he listens at doors; it's the only way to find out anything. And Michael's heard a secret - one that might explain the bruises on his mother's face. When the whispers at home and on the street become too loud to ignore, Michael begins to wonder if there is an even bigger secret he doesn't know about. Scared of what might happen if anyone finds out, and desperate for life to return to normal, Michael sets out to piece together the truth.
Notes: Originally published: London: William Heinemann, 2013.

Winner of The Commonwealth Book Prize 2013.