Last Lesson

James Goodhand

  • Harry Illingworth

  • Drama; YA

  • May 2020

    • World Rights: Solaris Books

Last year, Ollie Morcombe was a star pupil, popular and a gifted musician.

Then, after the accident, everything changed. Now he's an outcast, a prime target of the school bullies who have made his life a living hell.

Today - the last day of the school year - he's brought those bullies a gift. A homemade pipe bomb.

What has driven a model student to plan an unspeakable revenge? And with the clock ticking down to home time, what can anybody do to stop him?

  • CHOSEN AS THE AUGUST 2020 BOOK FOR THE CLARE MACKINTOSH BOOK CLUB

Selected Praise

“Devastatingly good. So gripping, so important.”
— Clare Mackintosh, author of The Last Party
“A powerfully charged study in empathy.”
— Financial Times
“A sensitive, gripping book about mental health and masculinity”
— Samuel Pollen, author of The Year I Didn’t Eat

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