Gift book, authored by Craig Haggison

At eleven years old, Julian Flinte prefers to remain invisible and safe within the architecture of adults provided by his mother, Emma, the famous sculptor, and his uncle and aunt. But when his mother Emma takes them all on a family vacation to a seaside hotel, he meets the charming and unrespectable Claire, and everything he thought he knew begins to change - leading to a series of events from the author of The House of Dreams and The White Room, Craig Hignson's most captivating and precise novel yet. Moving from the lush beaches of Omlanga Rocks to the stark midwinter wastes in Johannesburg and the rich and strange coral reefs of Mauritius, this vividly drawn novel explores the fault lines between loyalty and betrayal, innocence and accountability, blindness and awareness, confinement and escape. The Gift Book dives into the deepest and most dangerous tributaries of human consciousness to catch the brightest fish. Number of pages: 248