Dimensions
143 x 223 x 32mm
Saul Dawson-Smith can memorise the sequence of a shuffled deck of cards; he can recite pi to a thousand decimal places and remembers every conversation he’s ever had. He is 10 years old.
Howard McNamee is 28: lonely, overweight and poorly educated. He lives in the north of England in the home he shared with his mother before she died. Struggling to pay his rent with a succession of menial jobs, Howard comes home each day and talks to the late Mrs McNamee, as he sits in front of the wardrobe that still contains her clothes.
Through a series of unexpected events, these two solitary people find themselves forming an unlikely friendship and embarking on an extraordinary adventure: seen by the world as an apparent abduction, the road trip they take together is at once an exhilarating escape bid, a journey into Howard’s past and a bewitchingly strange voyage of discovery for man and boy
