13-year-old Simon is determined not to accept his mother’s new partner Philip and his future stepsister, 11-year-old Lissie. His new life on Philip’s farm in the North of England is very different from his previous life in London, and he hates his new boarding school.
Home for the summer holidays, he’s lonely, resentful and bored. Until one day he opens a local newspaper and sees a photograph of a runaway boy. He’s shocked by the resemblance. Apart from the boy’s clothes and his haircut, it could be a photograph of himself. Simon hides the newspaper. This will be his secret, but he is determined to find the boy with his face.
A gripping and emotional family mystery, full of plot twists and cliffhangers, for readers of 10 years and upwards.
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