Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends leave that they realise the full truth of what Hailsham is.
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The story of two North London families – one headed by Archie, the other by Archie’s best friend, a Muslim Bengali named Samad Iqbal.
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Take this as a warning; Crash is not for the faint-hearted or the literary reader. It falls far down the cracks in the gaping abyss between.