There had always been the Running Man - always that phantom form somewhere in the distance, always shuffling relentlessly closer . . .
Fourteen-year-old Joseph, a talented artist, is drawing a portrait of his silent, brooding neighbour, Tom Leighton. To draw him accurately, Joseph must see beyond the rumours and gossip to the man himself, the Vietnam War veteran who passes his days tending his silkworms and keeping his dark secrets. Joseph’s own horror of the running man, the disheveled figure of his nightmares, endlessly repeating a pattern, recedes with his growing understanding of the difficult relationships in his family.
Ages: 10+
