'We were savages, all of us ... Yes, savages; and I was worse than anyone because I stood back and watched.
'Could Ned really have changed the devastating events that occurred in his last years at school? Could he have influenced the gangleader who sadistically menaced their schoolmates? A chilling novel exposing the power of adolescent peer groups in secondary school playgrounds.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Writing Disability in Australia
| Type of disability | Schizophrenia. |
| Type of character | Secondary. |
| Point of view | First person. |
Note: the narrator is one of the bullies who torments the schizophrenic character, but the latter's diary also serves a narrative function.
