By Any Other Name
By Jeannie Meekins

Every now and then a story becomes a part of you, your friend and confidante. By any other Name has been one of those stories.
The story follows Declan from infancy growing up in Australia, doing boy type stuff. Getting into trouble, scrapes with danger, girls and religion. Until one day someone asks him 'what does your dad do for a living.' Declan doesn't know and what he discovers changes the dynamic of this story. Suddenly there is an edge, an underlying threat that follows every episode, every decision declan and his family have to make so that Declan survives to follow a different path to his father.
For the past week I have laughed and cried, and rejoiced at Declan's attempts to be a good person and survive on his own.
This is a grand read. A family saga of sorts. A thriller to a degree. But it is bloody good. I loved it. Read it eh?