Drive By

It's the long, hot summer holidays. One particularly boiling day, fed up with soaking girls in the park, Johnny and his three friends take their water pistols and cycle to the shops. Parked outside is the Poisoned Dwarf, the old lady who sliced open the football they kicked into her garden. The boys take aim and shoot jets of water through the car window. This small, silly act of teen bravado has unforeseeable and devastating consequences for Johnny, which also affect his blossoming relationship with a girl called Summer.

Death, family fall-outs, spiritualism, ghosts, sibling relationships, young love and murder all feature in this engaging and powerful contemporary page-turner, which is told in alternate chapters by Johnny and Summer.