Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak

AND CLAY LOOKED BACK, ONE LAST TIME, BEFORE DIVING - IN, AND OUTWARDS - TO A BRIDGE, THROUGH A PAST, TO A FATHER.
HE SWAM THE GOLD-LIT WATER.

IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WAS ONE MURDERER, ONE MULE AND ONE BOY.
BUT THIS ISN'T THE BEGINNING, IT'S BEFORE IT.

Five Dunbar brothers are living - fighting, loving, grieving - in the perfect chaos of a house without grown-ups. Today, the father who left them has just walked right back in. He has a surprising request: who will build a bridge with him?

It is Clay, a boy tormented by a long-buried secret, who accepts. But why is Clay so broken? and why must he fulfil this extraordinary challenge?

Bridge of Clay is about a boy caught in a current, a boy intent on destroying everything he has in order to become everything he needs to be. Ahead of him lies the bridge, the vision that will save both his family and himself.

It will be a miracle and nothing less.

At once an existential riddle and a search for redemption, this tale of five brothers coming of age in a house without rules brims with energy, Joy and pathos. Written in Markus Zusak's distinctive style, it is a tour de force from a master storyteller of the heart.

IN THE END, THERE WAS ONE RIVE, ONE BRIDGE AND ONE MULE.
BUT THIS ISN'T THE END, IT'S AFTER IT.

Genres: Contemporary Fiction - Young Adult 14+ - Historical Fiction - Australia - Family - Realistic Fiction - Australian Author
Condition: Good*
Published: 2018 by Doubleday
Pages: 583
ISBN: 9780857525956
Weight: 785g
*Does have damage to dust jacket front and back from stickers.