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A boy runs across a busy road.
His father smacks him.
A passer-by intervenes ...
When Billy Wright runs across a busy road, his world is altered irreversibly, even though he doesn't realise it at the time.
Because a passer-by has stopped to watch the scene. She has seen Billy's father catch up with him and smack him. Within an hour she has informed social services, plunging the family into a living nightmare which begins with a social worker's visit and escalates through a series of misunderstandings until the family is threatened to its core.
What I Did is a powerful novel about the unseen consequences of a split second decision, about a childhood interrupted and the lengths we go to to protect the ones we love. It is frequently heartbreaking, blackly funny, and utterly compelling.
Genre: General Fiction
His father smacks him.
A passer-by intervenes ...
When Billy Wright runs across a busy road, his world is altered irreversibly, even though he doesn't realise it at the time.
Because a passer-by has stopped to watch the scene. She has seen Billy's father catch up with him and smack him. Within an hour she has informed social services, plunging the family into a living nightmare which begins with a social worker's visit and escalates through a series of misunderstandings until the family is threatened to its core.
What I Did is a powerful novel about the unseen consequences of a split second decision, about a childhood interrupted and the lengths we go to to protect the ones we love. It is frequently heartbreaking, blackly funny, and utterly compelling.
Genre: General Fiction
Praise for this book
"Hugely impressive, gripping, funny and thought provoking." - Emily Barr
"This is family life at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging. What I Did is every parent's nightmare, but will make you burst out laughing too. I LOVED IT." - Emma Donoghue
"I loved it! Staggeringly good. Terrifyingly good." - Lisa Jewell
"Excellent . . . Dark but uplifting." - Alex Preston
"This is family life at its most believable: warm and messy, bored and raging. What I Did is every parent's nightmare, but will make you burst out laughing too. I LOVED IT." - Emma Donoghue
"I loved it! Staggeringly good. Terrifyingly good." - Lisa Jewell
"Excellent . . . Dark but uplifting." - Alex Preston
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Hardback Editions
September 2012 : UK Hardback

Title: What I Did
Author(s): Christopher Wakling
ISBN: 0-7531-9020-6 / 978-0-7531-9020-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books
Availability: Amazon UK
Paperback Editions
August 2013 : UK Paperback
Title: What I Did
Author(s): Christopher Wakling
ISBN: 0-7531-9021-4 / 978-0-7531-9021-0 (UK edition)
Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books
Availability: Amazon UK
July 2012 : USA Paperback
July 2012 : Paperback

Title: What I Did: A Novel
Author(s): Christopher Wakling
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Availability: Amazon
April 2012 : Canada Paperback
January 2012 : UK Paperback
August 2011 : UK Paperback
Kindle Editions
July 2012 : USA Kindle edition

Title: What I Did: A Novel
Author(s): Christopher Wakling
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Availability: Amazon
April 2012 : Canada Kindle edition

Title: What I Did
Author(s): Christopher Wakling
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Availability: Amazon CA
August 2011 : Australia, UK Kindle edition