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‘What’s up with your mum?’
We sit on the railings and, as the grey clouds scud over our heads,
I tell Jack and Freya about Mum being ill. I don’t tell them that I’m worried stupid, but they’re my mates, I think they can work that out for themselves. I also tell them about Jesse and his accident. The prat.
‘Blimey – sixty-six per cent of one family in hospital at the same time!’ says Jack. ‘You’d better watch yourself, Lukey. It could be an ancient Indian curse . . . Why don’t you sleep at mine tonight?’
‘Yeah, go on,’ I say. ‘Don’t fancy another night home alone.’
To tell the truth, I’ve eaten the last pizza anyway.
Luke’s world is turned upside down when his mum collapses at the hospital where she works as a nurse. Fourteen-year-old Luke and his football-obsessed younger brother Jesse each cope in their different ways, and, as time passes, they must confront some painful truths.
Honest, funny and deeply moving, this is a story about facing the worst and surviving.
Publication date: January 2009
Longlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize
'Life, Interrupted is a lovely, warm, funny book – though searingly sad at times. I wish I'd written it.' Jacqueline Wilson
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