The Park Jeroen Van de Waal and the day he died

and the day he died

turtles and hummingbirds

This is a powerful and revelatory coming-of-age novel based on the author’s own childhood

Reading it without that background will be a confusing process at best

The Park Jeroen Van de Waal and the day he diedOn a beautiful Sunday afternoon, an incident takes place in a North London park. Chris is accidentally bitten by an excited dog and aims a defensive kick at it. The owner, well known polemicist Ivan Grubb, takes to his blog to express his outrage, spinning the story to sit happily within his own narrative. When Ivan and Chris relate the event to their children, they are surprised and confused by the strength of feeling their reactions have provoked.