At the start of his school holidays Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer. But when his mother returns home one afternoon flanked by two policemen he knows that something terrible has happened. Mrs Delaney has accidentally hit a small boy with her car. The boy is in a coma at the local hospital & nobody knows if he will ever wake up. Consumed by guilt Dannys mother closes herself off while Danny & his father are left to pick up the pieces of their fractured family. Told in John Boynes unique style from the point of view of a twelve-year-old boy The Dare" is a brilliantly compelling story about how one moment can change a family forever."