Run, Rabbits, Run!
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Some fathers leave their children money. Some leave them wisdom. Timon left Michal something far more dangerous. His imagination.In the autumn of his life, Michal sits down to write. Not because he wants to. Because he has to. Because there are events from his eleventh year that have never left him. A father who built entire worlds on the page while remaining a stranger at home. A housekeeper named Mona who loved him more than his own flesh and blood. And a school unlike anything he could have prepared for, where eleven boys, one extraördinary teacher, and a great deal of trouble would change him forever.His father, Timon, was not an ordinary man.Writing under the pseudonym Solomon, Timon penned three science fiction novels in the 1970s. Books that warned the world about environmental destruction before the world was ready to listen. The books made him famous. They also made him enemies. The last of Solomon's Trilogy cost Timon his life.Left suddenly without a father, Michal finds himself a ward of the state, sent to the Hillrok Institution. A residential school with with rules, routines, and more secrets than any eleven year old should have to carry. What he does not expect is Willoughby Jones.Part schoolmaster, part philosopher, part quiet miracle. Willoughby Jones teaches in a way no one expects and loves his boys in a way they will spend the rest of their lives trying to live up to. He is funny. He is warm. He is exactly what Michal needs.Funny and heartbreaking in equal measure, Run, Rabbits, Run! is a story about what we inherit from the people who were supposed to be present and were not. It is about the friends we find in the most unlikely places. It is about the teachers who save us without ever knowing they are doing it. And it is about the moment a boy realises that the most powerful thing his father ever gave him was not grief. It was a voice.Ultimately, it is a story about love, hate, and everything in between. Which is to say, it is a story about all of us."An unhurried sense of an engaging tale gently unfolding. Simply enchanting." Copy Editor's Review
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Some fathers leave their children money. Some leave them wisdom. Timon left Michal something far more dangerous. His imagination.In the autumn of his life, Michal sits down to write. Not because he wants to. Because he has to. Because there are events from his eleventh year that have never left him. A father who built entire worlds on the page while remaining a stranger at home. A housekeeper named Mona who loved him more than his own flesh and blood. And a school unlike anything he could have prepared for, where eleven boys, one extraördinary teacher, and a great deal of trouble would change him forever.His father, Timon, was not an ordinary man.Writing under the pseudonym Solomon, Timon penned three science fiction novels in the 1970s. Books that warned the world about environmental destruction before the world was ready to listen. The books made him famous. They also made him enemies. The last of Solomon's Trilogy cost Timon his life.Left suddenly without a father, Michal finds himself a ward of the state, sent to the Hillrok Institution. A residential school with with rules, routines, and more secrets than any eleven year old should have to carry. What he does not expect is Willoughby Jones.Part schoolmaster, part philosopher, part quiet miracle. Willoughby Jones teaches in a way no one expects and loves his boys in a way they will spend the rest of their lives trying to live up to. He is funny. He is warm. He is exactly what Michal needs.Funny and heartbreaking in equal measure, Run, Rabbits, Run! is a story about what we inherit from the people who were supposed to be present and were not. It is about the friends we find in the most unlikely places. It is about the teachers who save us without ever knowing they are doing it. And it is about the moment a boy realises that the most powerful thing his father ever gave him was not grief. It was a voice.Ultimately, it is a story about love, hate, and everything in between. Which is to say, it is a story about all of us."An unhurried sense of an engaging tale gently unfolding. Simply enchanting." Copy Editor's Review
AmazonPages: 218, Paperback, Michal Beres
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