Small Town Hero

By: Patrick Neate

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Paperback | 6 January 2020

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Paperback
272 Pages

Age
12 - 99

Grade
5 - 8

Dimensions(cm)
19.5 x 13 x 2

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A mind-expanding journey through the multiverse, all through the eyes of one thirteen-year-old boy with an extraordinary ability to tell stories that might just become real.

Ever since his dad died in a shock accident, thirteen-year-old Gabe’s world has been turned upside-down and back to front. Literally: Gabe has discovered the ability to tell stories which take him into the past, or imagine an impossible version of the present or future that seems as real as real. Gabe has no clue what is going on. But the answers may lie with his mysterious uncle Jesse, an online game called Small Town Hero which seems to mirror Gabe’s own life, a long-lost grandmother, and the very fabric of time and the universe.

Book Features:

A brain-twisting debut children's novel from Patrick Neate, award-winning adult novelist and screenwriter.
Patrick is the winner of the Betty Trask Award, Whitbread Novel Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award.
Football, time-travel, video games and family makes this a truly unique novel. Ideal for fans of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Ready Player One and White Rabbit Red Wolf.

About the Author

Patrick Neate is the author of seven novels, including Twelve Bar Blues, which won the Whitbread (now Costa) Novel Award, and two books of non-fiction, including Where You’re At, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. His film scripts include an adaptation of his own novel City of Tiny Lights, starring Riz Ahmed and Billie Piper, and pianist James Rhodes’s best-selling memoir Instrumental. He is also the founder of Book Slam, London’s first and greatest literary shindig.

Industry Reviews

"An irresistible lead character and a plot that will melt your brain out of your ears (in the best way)" -- Patrick Ness
"When characters spring to life like this, even the most extraordinary, logic-defying events feel possible" -- Claire Hennessy * Irish Times *
"Neate's smart involving tale follows 13-year-old Gabe, who is mourning his father, as he finds himself sucked into a strange world" * The i *
"Grief, alternate realities, family and football - this has all the intrigue of an elusive-to-crack code. Patrick Neate's Small Town Hero melds a sensitive handling of real-life loss with alternate world weirdness to create a surprising, unique novel" * Lovereading *
"[A] smart involving tale" * The i *

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