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    The Memory Cage: Alex has survived a war. Now his mind is the enemy.
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    The Memory Cage: Alex has survived a war. Now his mind is the enemy.
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    The Memory Cage: Alex has survived a war. Now his mind is the enemy.

    By Ruth Eastham

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    No child should have to live through a war.

    No child should have to see what Alex has seen.

    He's locked it all away in a secret place but, one day, the ticking time bomb in his mind has to detonate.

    Alex's family want to help, but they have other problems.

    Only Alex's beloved grandfather can answer his questions about family secrets.

    But Grandad is scarred by a war of his own - and his memories are fading fast as the effects of Alzheimer's grip him.

    Time is running out for Alex.

    Only by unlocking the terrors of the memory cage for both of them, can he hope to escape the nightmares.

    Ruth Eastham's The Memory Cage is a transfixing story about adoption, Alzheimer's, the strength of the relationships within families through testing times, and the effects our memories have on how we live the rest of our lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVertebrate Publishing
    Release dateJun 1, 2017
    ISBN9781911342571
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    The Memory Cage: Alex has survived a war. Now his mind is the enemy.
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    Ruth Eastham

    Ruth Eastham is an award-winning author from the UK. Her debut novel, The Memory Cage, was shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal, and her writing has won and been shortlisted for many other national and regional awards. Her second book, The Messenger Bird, won and was shortlisted for many local authority book prizes and its Enigma Code themes made it a featured book at the famous Bletchley Park. Ruth Eastham is a regular visitor to schools, in the UK and internationally, giving inspiring talks and running innovative creative writing workshops for all ages, fascinating children with the real life mysteries and dramas behind these and her other books: The Warrior in the Mist and The Jaguar Trials. She has lived in New Zealand, Australia and Italy and has two daughters.

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