Gone Book
I know you’ll hate me. I just know you will. But I can’t help it. I’m going to find you.
Matt’s mam left home when he was 10. He writes letters to her but doesn’t send them. He keeps them in his Gone Book, which he hides in his room. Five years of letters about his life. Five years of hurt.
Matt’s dad won’t talk about her. His older brother is mixed up with drugs and messing with dangerous characters. His friends, Mikey and Anna, are the best thing in his life, but Matt keeps pushing them away.
All Matt wants to do is skate, surf, and forget. But now his mam is back in town and Matt knows he needs to find her, to finally deliver the truth.
Limerick City native Helena Close has been writing full-time for 20 years. She has written or co-written seven novels, published by Hodder Headline (under the pseudonym Sarah O’Brien), Hachette Ireland and Blackstaff Press. The Gone Book is her first young adult novel.
‘Extraordinary, a remarkable book that expands the frontiers of Irish popular fiction.’ – The Irish Times (for The Cut of Love)
‘An impressive, relevant, and entertaining read. An absolute page turner.’ – The Irish Independent (for The Clever One)