KEEPING MUM HC – JAMES GOULD-BOURN

CHOSEN FOR DAILY MAIL S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020 Touching and often hilarious… A truly joyful read Press Journal ********** Danny Malooley s life is falling apart. He s a single parent with an eleven-year-old son, Will, who hasn t spoken since the death of his mother in a car crash fourteen months ago. He s being pursued by a dodgy landlord for unpaid rent and he s just lost his job. Struggling to find work, and desperate for money, Danny decides to do what anyone in his position would do. He becomes a dancing panda. After seeing street performers in his local park raking it in, he spends his last fiver on a costume… but the humiliation is worth it when Will finally speaks to him for the first time since his mother s death. The problem is Will doesn t know that the panda is in fact his father, and Danny doesn t want to reveal his true identity in case Will stops talking again. But Danny can t keep up the ruse forever… ********** Uplifting Woman Home A surprising, laugh-out-loud and uplifting story of a father and son reconnecting in the most unlikely of circumstances. For fans of Nick Hornby, Mike Gayle and Jojo Moyes.