It's in the light touch prose, the simple honesty of its characters and the lack of preachiness in its serious themes of aid, corruption and child poverty. But if you look carefully, the quirkiness is still there in Trash, despite the altogether more realistic setting. I loved this unusual mystery story and it caught me by surprise, because it's a very different book to Ribblestrop, Andy Mulligan's rather super absurdist comedy set in a boarding school. You have to hand it to the team at David Fickling - they sure know how to pick 'em. and will also land him in terrible danger. And he has good things in his life - a close extended family, a best friend called Gardo - and an exciting secret.īecause Raphael found something amidst the rubbish a key that will turn his entire world upside-down. What a home, eh? But Raphael has a smile that lights up his whole face and lifts the spirits of all those upon whom he bestows it. Behala replaced Smoky Mountain, another slum that got so dangerous that landslides killed dozens of people and the authorities closed it. He's a dumpsite boy - this means he and his family scrape a living by combing through the detritus of richer people's lives. Raphael lives in Behala, a slum that's grown up around a landfill site in an unnamed South American country.
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