At the start of his school holidays, Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer.
Told in John Boyne's unique style from the point of view of a twelve-year-old boy, The Dare is a brilliantly compelling story about how one moment can change a family forever..
Consumed by guilt, Danny's mother closes herself off, while Danny and his father are left to pick up the pieces of their fractured family.
The boy is in a coma at the local hospital and nobody knows if he will ever wake up.
Mrs Delaney has accidentally hit a small boy with her car.
But when his mother returns home one afternoon, flanked by two policemen, he knows that something terrible has happened.
At the start of his school holidays, Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer
