{"product_id":"pigeon-english-1","title":"Pigeon English","description":"Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on an inner-city housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around him.  With equal fascination for the local gang - the Dell Farm Crew - and the pigeon who visits his balcony, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of his new life in England: watching, listening, and learning the tricks of urban survival.   But when a boy is knifed to death on the high street and a police appeal for witnesses draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own. In doing so, he unwittingly endangers the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to try and keep them safe.  A story of innocence and experience, hope and harsh reality, Pigeon English is a spellbinding portrayal of a boy balancing on the edge of manhood and of the forces around him that try to shape the way he falls.","brand":"Stephen Kelman","offers":[{"title":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) \/ 07 Mar 2011 \/ 332","offer_id":50588764930389,"sku":"9781408810637","price":3.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0501\/4188\/8668\/files\/9781408810637_10ea8d7c-2984-4082-91cf-18f4443979ee.webp?v=1744214165","url":"https:\/\/www.bookworld.ie\/products\/pigeon-english-1","provider":"Book World Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}