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'We're the rubbish kids, losers and orphans. Everyday we go out on to the Tip to sort rubbish for Mother Shelly.'
For Sham, Fly Pie and his sister Jane, this is the grim reality of their lives. Then one day everything changes when they find a baby on the Tip - a baby worth seventeen million pounds . . .
This discovery takes them into a savage, lonely city and so begins an endless fight for survival.
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The discovery of a seventeen-million-pound baby on the rubbish tip they call home throws in their paths an opportunity to gain everything they have ever hoped for, if only they can seize it. Along with companion Sham, another Rubbish Kid, they struggle against the hands that threaten to crush yet another dream, and risk everything they have to hold it together. They try desperately to believe, in the midst of betrayal and the loss of their remaining innocence, that if they play by the rules and try to retain their honesty and integrity, their good fortune will come along.
This is a stunning, intense, uncompromising and unpatronising novel that does not deserve the connotations of Teenage Fiction. Burgess minces no words, softens no blows, invents no happy endings. Yet within a story of loss and tragedy, Burgess weaves a vein of strangely uplifting goodness in unexpected beauties, love, warmth, humour, resilience and courage. A read that will grip you from beginning to end.
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