Nicholas Dane Author:Melvin Burgess When fourteen-year-old Nicholas Dane?s mother dies, social services sends him to a home for boys where intimidation and violence keep order. After a number of fights and brutal punishments, Nick thinks that life can?t possibly get any worse . . . until he realizes that the home?s respected deputy head, who has been grooming him with sweets and s... more »olace, has something more frightening in mind. Acclaimed writer and truth-teller Melvin Burgess brings us, with Dickensian scope and compelling narrative drive, his most ambitious book yet.« less