Panther
Author(s): David Owen
Life isn't going terribly well for Derrick; he's become severely overweight, his only friend has turned on him, he's hopelessly in love with a girl way out of his league, and it's all because of his sister. Her depression, and its grip on his family, is tearing his life apart. When rumours start to circulate that a panther is roaming wild in his south London suburb, Derrick resolves to turn capture it. Surely if he can find a way to tame this beast, he'll be able to stop everything at home from spiraling towards disaster? Panther is a bold and emotionally powerful novel that deals candidly with the effects of depression on those who suffer from it, and those who suffer alongside them.
Product Information
Shortlisted for Sheffield Children's Book Award 2016. Long-listed for Carnegie Medal 2016.
David Owen achieved a first class honours in BA Creative Writing and an MA Writing for Children at the University of Winchester, where he went on to teach on the BA Creative Writing course for three years. He is also an awards-shortlisted games journalist, with a particular interest in the applications for video games outside of entertainment, and he has written about games being used to treat depression, dyslexia and autism. David has been published as a poet in journals including Agenda and Seam. Panther is his first novel.
General Fields
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- : Little, Brown Book Group
- : ATOM
- : 0.194
- : 29 February 2016
- : 197mm X 132mm X 16mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 June 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : David Owen
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 240