Swap the happy family home in leafy suburbia for a dodgy Northern estate, home of your dying grandfather.

Swap the gorgeous Emily for Jade. She's got a few secrets of her own. You don't want to know. Really.

Swap those loving parents for turf wars, crime, drugs and a stranger who, incredibly, claims to be your father.

This isn't one of those dreams you wake up from — for fifteen-year-old Aidan it's a slice of life that is all too real.

A sensational thriller that will raise your blood pressure and set your pulse racing.

' His novels just keep getting better. It would seem that there is nothing he cannot write about. Gibbons deserves to be recognised as a national treasure . ' — The Bookseller

Malcolm Freeman trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has appeared on television in the Trail of Guilt, Holby City, Family Affairs, EastEnders, Prime Suspect and The Rag Nymph. He read The Edge by Alan Gibbons, which was nominated in the 2003 Spoken Word Awards.