Fifteen-year-old Donald Leroy Samson is the son of an absentee St.
Her family is typical of modern Britain, with roots in England, Scotland and Trinidad..
She lives in Sussex with her partner, three children and a Jack Russell terrier.
Her first novel, 29 Locks was shortlisted in the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize and the Mslexia Children\'s Novel Competition.
She has taught in secondary schools for twenty-three years.
She studied English Literature, with a focus on representations of race in Early Modern theatre.
About author(s): Nicola Garrard grew up in Devon, France and Sussex.
A gritty, urban tale of redemption.
Life will never be the same again.
When they start out on their journey, the future for both of them looks unpromising, like the fake audition, but as each lock is navigated and conquered, as the waters fall then rise again, their adventure takes on a new dimension.
When Donny\'s bored, rich, white girlfriend Zoe is offered a dubious modeling audition, the couple "borrow" a barge and navigate the 29 Locks on the canal system from Hertfordshire down into Kings Cross.
Growing up in dire poverty in Hackney, East London, his life is shaped by casual violence, gang initiation, drug-dealing, and knife crime.
Lucian father and a drug-addicted English mother.
Fifteen-year-old Donald Leroy Samson is the son of an absentee St
