Good Son

WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2016 Finalist for The People`s Book Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the Authors` Club Best First Novel Award 2016 Chosen for City Reads 2016 Shortlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize ELLE Best Books of 2015 The Reading Agency: Books of 2015 Mickey Donnelly is smart, which isn`t a good thing in his part of town. Despite having a dog called Killer and being in love with the girl next door, everyone calls him `gay`. It doesn`t help that his best friend is his little sister, Wee Maggie, and that everyone knows he loves his Ma more than anything in the world. He doesn`t think much of his older brother Paddy and really doesn`t like his Da. He dreams of going to America, taking Wee Maggie and Ma with him, to get them away from Belfast and Da. Mickey realises it`s all down to him. He has to protect Ma from herself. And sometimes, you have to be a bad boy to be a good son.