Pittwater Life, Sydney
01 Jun 2012
The Boy Under the Table. Nicole Trope. Allen Er Unwin. 129.99
.1-iita is a teenage runaway
turned to prostitution at Kings
Cross. One Winter night she
breaks her own rule and goes
home with a customer where
she makes a shocking discovery.
Meanwhile a country
family is grieving, in fact, falling
apart over the disappearance
of their six-year-old son
Lockie at the Easter Show four
months earlier. But there are
faint signs of hope, for Tina
and Lockie, Author Nicole
Trop:. a former high school
teacher with a Master's
degree in children's literature.
has written a nail-biting,
harrowing drama of a world
behind the headlines.
A hard book to put down.