Neville Barnard

Roberts’ parents have split up and now he spends the week at boarding school and each weekend with a different parent. When he finds the broken wedding cake statue his Mum has thrown out, he spends all his time trying to glue it back together in the vain hope that this will bring his parents back together too. Then he thinks about the ways he can use superglue to undermine his Mum’s new boyfriend (he superglues his wallet together) or bring his Dad up in his Mum’s eyes. A funny yet sad novel about the impact of divorce on kids. p.32-43 Robert and his Mum and new man Adam have a terrible dinner.… (meer)