{"product_id":"9781910646946-the-10pm-question","title":"The 10pm Question","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eReissue of this ‘\u003cem\u003eperfectly crafted novel, funny, compassionate, rich in characters\u003c\/em\u003e’ (Daily Telegraph). Frankie's carefully controlled world unravels as he is forced to face his one burning unanswered question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*A 2025 READ FOR EMPATHY BOOK*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner, Book of the Year in both Young Adult and General Fiction categories in the author’s native New Zealand. A warm, surprising, witty and intelligent novel you will fall in love with. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrankie Parsons is twelve going on old man, an apparently sensible, talented boy with a drumbeat of worrying questions steadily gaining volume in his head:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAre the smoke alarm batteries flat?\u003cbr\u003eDoes the cat, and therefore the rest of the family, have worms?\u003cbr\u003eWill bird flu strike and ruin life as we know it?\u003cbr\u003eIs the Kidney-shaped spot on his chest actually a galloping cancer?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly Ma takes seriously his catalogue of persistent queries. But it is Ma who is the cause of the most worrying question of all, the one that Frankie can never bring himself to ask. Then the new girl arrives at school and has questions of her own: relentless, unavoidable questions. So begins the unraveling of Frankie Parsons's carefully controlled world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA perfectly crafted novel, funny, compassionate, rich in characters. Hot damn (it also has great swear words), it’s good. –\u003c\/em\u003e The Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in the UK in 2010, this is a book whose preoccupations resonate even louder over a decade later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41540127948897,"sku":"9781910646946","price":6.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28680582.jpg?v=1722794254","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781910646946-the-10pm-question","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}