The Bonny Lad
Jonathan Tulloch
  • Published: 15 March 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099284567
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.99

The Bonny Lad

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'Like an English Roddy Doyle, Tulloch's dialect and characterisation of a community down but not out is at once hilarious and heartbreaking' - GQ

Sonny Gee is six years old when his mother abandons him. He is taken in by his grandfather, Joe, a man he's never met, a former miner, grim and taciturn. Forced together and immediately locked in conflict, an inarticulate tenderness develops between the old man and the boy. For both of them, however, this new relationship is increasingly threatened by forces from the past.

By winner of the Betty Trask Prize and the J B Priestly Award.
  • Published: 15 March 2002
  • ISBN: 9780099284567
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $26.99
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About the author

Jonathan Tulloch

Jonathan Tulloch has written many novels, including The Season Ticket, winner of the Betty Trask Prize, and Give Us This Day. He has also won a K Blundell Award and the J.B. Priestley Award. The Times Literary Supplement listed him as one of the best young British writers. His work has been filmed and translated into five languages.

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Praise for The Bonny Lad

Sonny Gee is an Oliver Twist for our times

Sunday Times

Packs an emotional punch

Independent

Undeniably seductive

Sunday Times

[The] friendship that develops between the unemotional retired miner and the damaged youngster is simply touching, rather like the whole of this gentle novel

The Times

The Bonny Lad celebrates the redemptive power of love with humour and poignancy, without flinching form counting its cost... A warm and moving tale

Irish Times