Broken Glass

By Sally Grindley

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747586152
• ISBN13: 9780747586159
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.7" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

A story told and a lesson learnt

This is my first book by Sally Grindley. I confess I picked it up because I had nothing else on hand at the time. However, I was very pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed her writing. Broken Glass is about a small Indian family whose only bread winner is the father. He works in a railway station and because he has a job, he is able to send his two sons to school. Suddenly the boys' father is told that in three months he will no longer have a job and everything spirals out of control for the family. The boys' father begins to see his family as a burden and starts to physically abuse his wife. It is only after he starts to abuse his older son that the boys decide to run away. With no idea what to expect but thinking that they would be able to survive by finding a job, the boys quickly discover hunger and living without proper shelter. They find themselves living among a group of other street kids who have to look for recyclables in rubbish dumps in order to survive. Grindley's story is simple and manages to teach a lesson at the end without sounding preachy.