Ten-year-old Robyn is the best shoplifter in the Liverpool tenement block she calls home. She’s as tough as they come, but while she puts food on the table and tries to fit in at school, her mum and abusive step-father sleep off their hangovers at home.
As often as she can, Robyn escapes to her nan’s cosy flat on the other side of town, where she reads Anne of Green Gables and nibbles on tea and toast. But she can’t stay there forever. And when her father’s cruelty escalates at home she knows it’s time to disappear. Pushed beyond endurance, Robyn sleeps rough on city backstreets, until help from a stranger offers the first steps to change in her terrorized life.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Wonderful authenticity: I found it compelling –Jimmy McGovern
A remarkable first novel – both heartbreaking and wonderfully lacking in any sentimentality. –Alan Bleasdale
Deborah Morgan has managed to capture something very real about the profound seriousness of growing up and finding out, all too soon, that life is unfair. Robyn was great company, an engaging and fully-realised character who sticks in the mind, and the rough world she lives in is familiar and completely believable. Deborah Morgan gets it just right. –Carol Birch
Book Description
A moving tale of an imperilled childhood and a young girl’s strength of will
About the Author
DEBORAH MORGAN lives in Liverpool with her family. Before taking up writing, she worked as a chambermaid, a bingo caller, a dressmaker and a primary school teacher. Written at the instigation of legendary Liverpudlian filmmaker Terence Davies, the first chapter of Disappearing Home was the runner-up in the ‘Pulp Idol’ writing competition at Liverpool’s Writing on the Wall Festival 2010, for which an editor from Tindal Street Press was a judge.
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