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Winner of the 2010 Costa Children's Award, Jason Wallace's debut novel is a powerful and compelling account of life in 1980s Zimbabwe. The times are fraught; the new black government is intent on dismantling the old colonial power infra-structures and the colonial whites resent their loss of power. A new boy at a prestigious boarding school, Robert Jacklin wants desperately to fit in. But when becoming one of the boys makes him complicit in their crimes, Robert must decide if it is more important to fit in or to be true to his beliefs... (Recommended for readers fourteen and older.)