Luke and Jon

by Robert Williams

Luke’s mum is dead. He finds himself in a small, scruffy northern hill town, with a near silent father, who he fears might be trying to drink himself to death. Then he meets Jon.

Jon is strange. He wears 1950s clothes, has a side-parting and a twitch. The kids at school call him ‘Slackjaw’. When Luke discovers Jon’s secret, both their lives are changed for good.

The winner of the National Book Tokens’ Not-Yet-Published Prize, Luke and Jon is an arresting debut about friendship, grief and how lives can change forever in a single second. Written with great power, warmth and humour, it signals a hugely engaging and original new voice

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Robert Williams grew up in Clitheroe, Lancashire and currently lives in Manchester. He worked in a secondary school library before working as a bookseller with Waterstone's. He has written and released music under the name 'The Library Trust'. He would like to live by the sea. Luke and Jon is his first novel

First-person account for a 14 year old boy's loss of his mother, his relationship with his grief-stricken father and with his new friend. Convincing language.