City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

The good son, Jacquelyn Mitchard

eng

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fiction

The good son

Jacquelyn Mitchard

Stefan was just 17 when he went to prison for the drug-fuelled murder of his girlfriend, Belinda. Three years later, he's released to a world that refuses to let him move on. Belinda's mother galvanises the community to rally against him to protest in her daughter's memory. The media paints Stefan as a symbol of white privilege and indifferent justice. Neighbours, employers, even some members of his mother Thea's own family turn away. Meanwhile, Thea struggles to understand her son. At times, he is still the sweet boy he has always been, at others, he is a young man tormented by guilt and almost broken by his time in prison. But as his efforts to make amends meet escalating resistance and threats, Thea suspects more forces are at play than just community outrage. And if there is so much she never knew about her own son, what other secrets has she yet to uncover - especially about the night Belinda died?

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