“Scared by the noise, Millie looked down at her brothers. Then she held out both arms and Tom's stomach turned cold. She was going to jump to him, like she did from the back of the sofa. She was going… — S.J. Bolton Copy Share Image
“The room was modern, but there was something about the arrangement of so much gleaming steel, the careful placement on the counters of jars… — S.J. Bolton Copy Share Image
“Of course, 85 per cent won’t be enough by itself to convict him, but it makes him someone you want to take seriously.” — S.J. Bolton Copy Share Image
“It gets to you, life on the streets, even when you know that for the moment at least you have somewhere else to go.… — S.J. Bolton Copy Share Image
“The trees on either side were very tall and thin, like long, skeletal fingers reaching to the sky. The few remaining leaves were still… — S.J. Bolton Copy Share Image
“Every time Tom was tempted to turn back, he made himself think of his brother. Joe, who he sometimes thought had been sent to… — S.J. Bolton Copy Share Image
“OFFICIAL ESTIMATES SAY THAT BETWEEN 1,000 AND 1,500 people sleep rough on the streets of London on any given night. Many of them are… — S.J. Bolton Copy Share Image
“Karen Curtis had never thought she would die to the sound of Julie Andrews.” — S.J. Bolton Copy Share Image
“THERE ARE TIMES when just waking up can feel like the hardest thing anyone could ever ask you to do. The first morning after… — S.J. Bolton Copy Share Image
“white-suited figures were making their way around the site like phantoms. The scene-of-crime officers had arrived. They would establish an inner cordon around the… — S.J. Bolton Copy Share Image
“But death has taken root inside you and you know it will grow, like a cancer with a voice, from now until the day… — S.J. Bolton Copy Share Image
“Scared by the noise, Millie looked down at her brothers. Then she held out both arms and Tom's stomach turned cold. She was going… — S.J. Bolton Copy Share Image
