I Refuse

From the author of the international bestsellerOut Stealing Horses

I refuseto compromise.

I refuseto forgive.

I refuseto forget.

Tommys mother has gone. She walked out into the snow one night, leaving him and his sisters with their violent father. Without his best friend Jim, Tommy would be in trouble. But Jim has challenges of his own which will disrupt their precious friendship.

ATLSandGuardianBook of the Year

Per Pettersonwas born in Oslo in 1952 and worked for several years as an unskilled labourer and a bookseller. He made his literary breakthrough in 2003 with the prizewinning novelOut Stealing Horses, which has been published in fifty languages and won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

I refuse to compromise.

I refuse to forgive.

I refuse to forget.

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