Hide And Seek
- 4 May 2006
- 9781841956954
- £8.99
- 288 pp
- 128×197mm
- 6 Aug 2009
- 9781847676825
- £7.19
- 288 pp
Hide & Seek is one of those rare novels you thrust at your friends and say 'Read this!'. It's ultra-convincingly written from the view point of a nine year old boy but it's a very adult read. Wise and funny and searingly sad but ultimately heart-warming.
Jaqueline Wilson
My God, it is beautifully done, probably the best book of its kind since . . . The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Hide & Seek is one of those rare novels you thrust at your friends and say 'Read this!'. It's ultra-convincingly written from the view point of a nine year old boy but it's a very adult read. Wise and funny and searingly sad but ultimately heart-warming.
Jaqueline Wilson
My God, it is beautifully done, probably the best book of its kind since . . . The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
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the book
Meet Harry Pickles, aged nine and a bit. Harry is the fastest boy runner in the world (probably), first son of Mo and Pa (the best-looking parents in the school car park), big brother to Daniel (who runs like a girl but is, in his own twerpy way, a star). His life is good. He’s premier league. At least, that’s the way it was before the school trip . . .
Clare Sambrook’s unforgettable first novel captures with startling truth and clarity the perspective of a confused nine-year-old. Poignant and personal, Hide and Seek resonates with authenticity and a brutal honesty that manages to be harrowing, life-affirming and funny.
More about
the book
Meet Harry Pickles, aged nine and a bit. Harry is the fastest boy runner in the world (probably), first son of Mo and Pa (the best-looking parents in the school car park), big brother to Daniel (who runs like a girl but is, in his own twerpy way, a star). His life is good. He’s premier league. At least, that’s the way it was before the school trip . . .
Clare Sambrook’s unforgettable first novel captures with startling truth and clarity the perspective of a confused nine-year-old. Poignant and personal, Hide and Seek resonates with authenticity and a brutal honesty that manages to be harrowing, life-affirming and funny.
Sambrook shows it is possible to write about complex emotional conditions in a child's voice. Touching, sad and very funny.
Katy Guest
Independent on SundayHarry is a remarkable invention.
Lesley Mcdowell
Sunday Herald
Clare Sambrook
View profileHide & Seek is Clare Sambrook’s first novel, and has already been translated into twelve languages. She lives in Cumbria, where she is working on her next book.
Clare Sambrook
View profileClare Sambrook is a mother of two, a karate black belt and a journalist with an interest in greed and skulduggery. Born in 1964, Clare graduated from Cambridge and lived for several years in Notting Hill, the setting for her first novel. She is currently working on her second and living in Cumbria.
