“ I FLY ”
A Young Adult novel by Andrew
Hawcroft
Outline
Jamie Cramer is thirteen years-old, and lives on the thirteenth floor of
Maycliff Towers in the dying English industrial town of Jaston. Jaston is a decaying, filthy, hopeless place,
founded upon a metal industry that saw its best years a long time ago. The people are despondent, violence and crime
is everywhere, and Jamie’s alcoholic mother, Shauna, has resented her son from
birth. They barely survive on her
welfare allowance, and his future is unsure. No, his future is bleak.
Then one night, under a particularly bright moon, Jamie can’t sleep and
walks into the kitchen. A moment later,
he discovers he is floating a few inches off the filthy linoleum.
As his astonishing ability progresses, his life seems to correspondingly
degenerate, his relationship with his mother deteriorating until things reach a
crisis point.
Only then does hope of a kind appear in the form of two warm-hearted
people who wish to adopt him. Things
finally seem to be turning a corner, and his future, once hopeless, now begins
to look dangerously positive.
The one thing he must not do, is let anybody find out he can fly.
For in these hysterical times, the consequences would surely be
disastrous…
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