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Lucas / Candy: Roman
Zwei Geschichten des Erfolsgautors Kevin Brooks im Gefühlsgeladen und spannend! Zwei Geschichten des Erfolsgautors Kevin Brooks im Gefühlsgeladen und spannend! Rückblickend erzählt die 15-jährige Caitlin über die Ereignisse des vergangenen Darüber, wie Lucas auf ihre Insel kam und sie sich in ihn verliebte. Doch während sie selbst vom ersten Moment an fasziniert ist von jenem Fremden, der schön ist und geheimnisvoll, von nirgendwoher zu kommen scheint und sich jeder Einordnung entzieht, reagieren die meisten Inselbewohner misstrauisch und vorurteilsvoll. Kann sie Lucas vor der gnadenlosen Hetzjagd schützen Am Bahnhof King's Cross begegnet Joe Candy – und eine Geschichte nimmt ihren Lauf, die völlig unwahrscheinlich Die Geschichte von der Liebe eines Arztsohnes aus einem gediegenen Londoner Vorort zu einem heroinsüchtigen Mädchen vom Straßenstrich in einem der härtesten Viertel der Stadt. Wider alle Vernunft versucht Joe sie daraus zu befreien. Doch hat er gegen dieses Milieu eine Chance – und will Candy überhaupt gerettet werden?
449 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 7, 2017
About the author
Kevin Brooks
60 books877 followersKevin Brooks was born in 1959 and grew up in Exeter, Devon, England. He studied Psychology and Philosophy at Birmingham, Aston University in 1980 and Cultural Studies in London in 1983. Kevin Brooks has been in a variety of jobs including: musician, gasoline station attendant, crematorium handyman, civil service clerk, hot dog vendor at the London Zoo, post office clerk, and railway ticket office clerk.
Kevin Brooks's writing career started with the publication of Martyn Pig in 2002 through The Chicken House which won the Branford Boase Award 2003 and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. He also wrote Lucas (2002) which was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and Booktrust Teenage Prize in 2003 also winning the North East Book Award in 2004.
In 2004 he published Kissing the Rain and Bloodline and I See You, Baby and Candy in 2005. In 2006 he published 3 books including: Johnny Delgado Series - Like Father, Like Son and Private Detective as well as The Road of the Dead; a standalone novel. In February 2008 he published the standalone book Black Rabbit Summer.
As a child, Kevin Brooks enjoyed reading detective novels. He writes most plots of the various books he has written around crime fiction. He likes mystery and suspence and enjoys putting both of those components into each and every story he writes in some shape or form.
Kevin Brooks's writing career started with the publication of Martyn Pig in 2002 through The Chicken House which won the Branford Boase Award 2003 and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. He also wrote Lucas (2002) which was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and Booktrust Teenage Prize in 2003 also winning the North East Book Award in 2004.
In 2004 he published Kissing the Rain and Bloodline and I See You, Baby and Candy in 2005. In 2006 he published 3 books including: Johnny Delgado Series - Like Father, Like Son and Private Detective as well as The Road of the Dead; a standalone novel. In February 2008 he published the standalone book Black Rabbit Summer.
As a child, Kevin Brooks enjoyed reading detective novels. He writes most plots of the various books he has written around crime fiction. He likes mystery and suspence and enjoys putting both of those components into each and every story he writes in some shape or form.
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