M: it was stamped in scarlet on his cardinal-coloured pullover. It was written in black on his birth certificate - and again, now, you have to think, scribbled on some anonymous slip of a form recording his unlamented death. And it was there, of course, all over the news, in the chat rooms, on the blogs and social networking sites that heralded his feats - or disparaged him. M: it was on everyone's lips. You couldn't miss him that spring and summer when his star, loaded with such dazzling gravity, lifted our hearts. Everyone knew him. Or really, everyone knew of him. But nobody knew him better than me. And his name was . . . Part mystery, part coming of age, part audacious grasp for celebrity and its riches, Now You Know shows Charlie in an imagined dialogue with Stephen Fry, recounting the summer when he was seventeen, and lived next door to a man who he's certain was the mysterious hero, known only as M.
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Review:
'This is a fascinating and original coming-of-age story' - Attitude Magazine
'A violent look at an unruly London caught in the grip of gangsta fear told in a unique, page-turning way.' Bent Magazine
'Through the use of characters who are at once both victims and perpetrators of crime, Walker creates a novel that allows us to question our assumptions, empathise and accuse as we untangle our own thoughts on these subjects.' - BookGeeks
'In Cold Blood meets The Great Gatsby' - American Fiction @ Suite 101
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- PublisherAcorn Independent Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1908318503
- ISBN 13 9781908318503
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages196
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