ABOUT
THE BOOK

It is the summer of 1960 and the sun is blazing down on Glue Terrace, high above Newcastle’s River Tyne. But for fifteen-year-old Leslie the holidays are anything but carefree. The houses are being demolished. And, alongside his home, Leslie’s childhood is also disappearing.
Leslie’s mother, Scotch Iris, is feckless and absent. The boy is responsible for the unpaid bills, for the eviction notices and, hardest of all, for his younger brother Geordie, ‘the dafty’ of Glue Terrace.
Suddenly their fragile world collapses. For in a derelict building, abandoned to the bulldozers, identical twins Maureen & Muriel are found dead. The house had been their summer playground. But now they are lying side by side, like two sleeping angels on a tomb, a dark gash in each of their necks.
Suspicion immediately falls on Geordie, who discovered the bodies. But Leslie is convinced of his brother’s innocence, and he is determined to prove it to everyone else…