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  • Paperback: 225 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (2 Jun 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571225136
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571225132
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 289,567 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Since the joyriding accident, 15-year-old Matt Norris's life has been hell. His brother, Jake, is dead, and Jake's girlfriend, Joolz, has been hideously scarred. Only Matt escaped the car crash unscathed. Or so it seems. Because now Jake is back, haunting Matt's every step, appearing out of thin air dressed in outrageous costumes. What does he want? Why does Joolz remember the accident differently? What exactly had happened? They'd all been too stoned to know. Riddled with guilt, Matt attempts a deadly reconstruction of that tragic day - and finds himself in a parallel world where the outcome of the crash was very different.


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Graham Joyce lives in Leicester with his wife and children. A full-time writer, he has devoted much of his spare time to promoting literacy in prisons, running creative writing courses in various high-security prisons in the UK. He is a four-time winner of the British Fantasy Award. He teaches creative writing at Nottingham University.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant fun, 27 Jul 2005
Lighter than Graham Joyce's usual books, this book is hilarious and thrilling at the same time. I read it on the train and I was laughing out loud. It also shows psychological insight. With its brilliant characters and a great plot it makes most teenage fiction look a bit slow-minded. It's fast, wild and totally believable. You know this stuff could easily happen. A great read highly recommended.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Joyce Does It Again - Brilliant Fiction., 1 Sep 2005
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bit of context: TWOC helpfully begins with a definition ("Twoc (twok) slang, abbr, used by police, lawyers, probation officers and other members of judicial services for criminal offence of Taking Without Owner's Consent as distinct from Theft, and usually applied to motoring offence of so-called 'joyriding'"). Not to be confused with Twocking (by Eric Brown, published by Barrington Stoke, in which a distinguished adult genre author writes about joyriding for a teen audience). Simultaneously published on Faber and Faber's children's list, although the only indication on the PS edition that it may be aimed at a younger audience is the back-flap reference to Graham Joyce being "the author of ten adult novels" -- not that it matters, as this is a very adult teen book, or a very teen adult book. And it's bloody good.

That's enough for context.

Remember that line from a non-classic Beatles song, something like "you were in a car crash and you lost your hair"? This is that, only as well as 16 year-old Matt's brother's girlfriend being horribly injured in the crash, Matt's brother Jake is killed. Now, Jake has taken to returning in a variety of costumes (I'm not sure what all the fancy dress really had to do with anything, come to think of it) to hang around outside Matt's twelfth-floor bedroom window and taunt him.

Matt really is screwed up, as are Amy and Gilb, two kids he meets at the local probation office. Joyce does screwed-up teenagers very well indeed, striking the difficult balance between trying to sound "street" and not taking it into the realms of unreadable and instantly dated teen argot. Matt is horribly anguished by what has happened, and his only defence is to try to hide his emotions and tough out every situation; Amy and Gilb are more insightful in their own ways, but both are also deeply-scarred individuals. The three delinquents are thrown together on a rather under-populated Outward Bound trip, where they confront their pasts, and their weaknesses, and have to make tough choices which will affect the rest of their lives. This post-crash story is neatly interleaved with flashbacks to the night of Matt's skunk-fuelled joyriding crash, so that everything builds up to a make-or-break night for all three of them.

It's hard to write a story of redemption where to any external observer the dice are so heavily loaded -- nicking cars and causing death and horrible injuries aren't really very good things to do -- without slipping over into the heavily moralistic and/or the schmaltzy tying up of every loose end of the worst of Hollywood. Joyce is a tightrope walker: he has perfect balance. This is good stuff.

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