Life, Interrupted

by Damian Kelleher

Overview

Honest, funny and deeply moving, this is an unforgettable story about facing the worst and surviving.

Luke's life is rudely interrupted when his mum, Pat, collapses at the hospital where she works. Thoughtful Luke, nearly 15, and his accident-prone younger brother Jesse each cope in their own ways. As time goes on it is clear Pat is not going to recover, and Luke's world rearranges itself, while friends and family rally round.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848121010
Publisher:	Bonnier Publishing Fiction
Publication date:	12/10/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	674 KB
Age Range:	13 - 15 Years

About the Author

Damian was editor of the Daily Telegraph's children's supplement Young Telegraph for several years. He was also the editor of the family section in the old Metro Life magazine and has reviewed children's books, theatre and films for radio on Front Row. He has appeared on the Simon Mayo show and Woman's Hour and used to have a regular slot during his Metro Life stint talking about weekend family activities on Vanessa Feltz's morning show on Radio London.
Damian first sharpened his pencil as an advertising copywriter before swapping ads for children's newspapers. He edited the Young Telegraph, the Daily Telegraph's award-winning children's supplement (before one wrinkly Telegraph reader told him she used it to line her dog basket).

Nowadays he works as a freelance writer, editor and children's book consultant, and heads up the creative side of The Reading Agency's Summer Reading Challenge, the UK's biggest reading initiative for children. His YA novel Life, Interrupted (Piccadilly Press, 2009) was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award, the Warwickshire Book Award, the North East Teenage Book Award, the Southern Schools Book Award, the Leeds Book Award and was commended by the Sheffield Children's Book Award.

He lives with his wife in north London and has two children who are too old for school but not old enough to leave home (yet). But he's working on it.