Shades of magic realism (cf Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus). Michael has moved house, Mum and Dad are preoccupied with the sick baby and renovations. The half-dead man in the condemned garage just wants a Chinese and a bottle of Newky Brown...
Enter Mina, the precocious home-schooled neighbour and her free-spirited mother, on hand to dispense modelling clay and liberal wisdom. Phew.
This is a genuinely well-written book and deals sensitively with emotional issues from a male perspective.
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