To Reach Me

Will Varney is 13 and all set to make his mark. No longer top of the class, he has clambered the ladder to the dizzy heights and finally made it into Craig 'Psycho' Prince's gang. Joanne Stone is 32 and a single mum. She's just taken a job as English teacher at the secondary school she went to as a teenager - how about that for a come-down. But what's she supposed to do now that Gavin has turned out to be not-quite-so-mister-right after all. To Reach Me is a novel about two fractured lives that coincide. It charts an unusual relationship between teacher and pupil - two lost souls searing for direction, for hope, for just something. Finding it is not straightforward, finding it depends on tearing everything down and starting again, finding it means letting go before knowing what there is to let go of. The search begins in the very moment that someone, just someone is listening.