Micka loves drawing & wants a pup but with older brothers into violence & petty crime & a mother who cant read the notes his teacher sends home from school neither he nor the pup stand much of a chance. Then a new boy Laurie starts at Mickas school. The two boys both have vivid imaginations but Lauries fantasies are of magic & revenge & he soon pulls Micka into a dangerous game where the line between make-believe & real life
- & ultimately death
- is increasingly blurred. Written in direct uncompromising yet compassionate prose & with a breathtaking clarity of insight Micka" is an astonishingly assured debut
- & an unforgettable story. " Micka" feels like a book that wrote itself.. . Frances Kay is an accomplished story teller who has found her darkest tale
- Anne Enright. I read this at a single sitting. Once started it was impossible to put aside.. . Atomising & searing " Micka" is a remarkable first novel
- Carlo Gebler."