The Ballad of Ronan McCoy - Colin Morgan

''A tender, elegant novel about the beauty and importance of friendship. Colin Morgan’s debut is one of the most moving books I’ve read in some time'' John Boyne*****''Soaring, lyrical and heart-breaking. A tender and important new voice in Irish writing'' Michelle Gallen''A fresh and authentic voice is found in this impressive and original debut about grief, loss and the enduring power of love'' Christine Dwyer Hickey***A tender coming-of-age story about friendship, first love, loss, and facing the ultimate question: who am I going to be? For fans of Douglas Stuart, Michael Magee, David Nicholls and Andrew O''HaganBrendan''s best friend, his only friend, is Ronan McCoy. He knows things about Brendan that no one else does: about his job washing the cars at Feeney’s Funeral Home, about the loneliness he sometimes feels even when surrounded by hundreds of others at school. But Brendan never told Ronan about the dark feeling that sits at the bottom of his stomach, the feeling that tells him something bad is coming. It never comes when Ronan''s around.Ronan is smart and sporty and popular, totally comfortable in his own skin: all the things that Brendan himself isn''t. But Ronan always makes him feel like a good friend, a good person, a better Brendan.Standing at the school gates on the first day of term, the dark feeling begins to form in Brendan''s stomach. And when Ronan doesn’t turn up, Brendan learns that something terrible happened to his best friend over the summer
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