His poetry has won the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award, and been shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. He has received major awards from the Arts Council and the Society of Authors. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and of the English Association.-website
Breath
Breath
Synopsis
“Breath” is set in a country recovering from a brutal and divisive civil war between north and south. The war may be over but people’s memories are long and hatreds are slow to fade. A teenage boy, Jamie, is knocked off his bike and dies in a city street. His father, Geoff Andrews, manager of the main hospital, is asked if he will allow one of Jamie’s lungs to be removed and flown north for a transplant. He agrees, and the mercy mission begins: six hours to get the lung out of one body and into another.As the night unfolds, and the plane travels through storms across the war-ravaged country and over the border, we see the drama from three…-author
Vibe
Genres
Characters
Geoff AndrewsProtagonist
Jamie's father and manager of the main hospital, who agrees to donate one of Jamie's lungs for a transplant.
JamieSupporting
A teenage boy who dies after being knocked off his bike, whose lung is needed for a transplant.
Places
Edition
BreathUnknown, 2010
208 pages
Penguin Random HouseLanguage: EnglishISBN: 9781407093451
