Dead Straight Line
- Author Malcolm Duffy
- Narrator George Bray
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date 9 April 2026
- Run Time 6 hours and 1 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction.
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What to expect
Two unlikely worlds collide as prize-winning Malcolm Duffy explores the life-changing repercussions of a single action in a game gone wrong.
Sixteen-year-old Rory is a rule-breaker, a risk taker, a maverick. As a kick he comes up with a game called Dead Straight Line. The idea is simple – wherever you happen to be, you’ve got to get home in a dead straight line. Across the back gardens of stranger’s houses, locked parks, trespassing on private property – whatever it takes.
One day, Rory pressures his friend Eliot into playing, resulting in a serious accident. Shunned by friends and facing pressure from his furious parents, Rory becomes even more angry and disruptive. When his school suggests helping out a care home, he’s unimpressed. But paired up with Tanker, an eighty-year-old Geordie military veteran, who fought in the Falklands War, things slowly begin to change.
From seeking thrills to finding friends, choosing the right path in life is never a dead straight line. But there is always a way.
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| Author | Malcolm Duffy |
|---|---|
| Narrator | George Bray |
| Duration | 6 hours and 1 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781035919246 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Genre | Children’s / Teenage fiction: General fiction |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE, US |
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