book cover of Waving Not Drowning
 

Waving Not Drowning

(2003)
A novel by

 
 
A look at the secret world teenagers often inhabit at home and the resulting pressures.

Three teenagers, all alike in misery: one, abandoned by his mother, has spent most of his life in care; another feels responsible for his grandmother who is suffering from Alzheimer's; and the third, the daughter of successful but quarrelling parents. Their worlds collide when the ferris wheel collapses and they all wind up in the same hospital.


Genre: Young Adult Fiction

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