Only Child

Rhiannon Navin's Only Child is the most powerful book you'll read this year . . .

Six-year-old Zach is at school one Tuesday when his world is blown apart.

Rebuilding it will be hard, not just for Zach, but also for his family and the local community, who are all left reeling by the events of that terrible day.

Zach is clever and brave, though, and has books, a secret hideout and, sometimes, a big brother to help him, so perhaps he can gradually make sense of his new existence.

But can he persuade the adults around him to listen to what he has to say -- and find hope again?

Told in Zach's voice, Only Child is a novel about trying first to survive, and then achieve, the unthinkable; about living in a world that has suddenly ceased to make sense but where the answer, ultimately, is simple.
Impossible -- unthinkable, even -- but simple.