Jamila Gavin

Coram Boy

Jamila Gavin

• 2000 Whitbread-Children's winner
• 2000 Carnegie shortlist
• Score: 16.5

Otis Gardiner, the Coram man, makes a vicious living disposing of the unwanted children and illegitimate offspring of distraught young women, rich and poor. Meshak is Otis’s oppressed, simpleminded son, who finally discovers an infant he considers special enough to risk saving out of the hundreds who have succumbed to his father’s brutality. The infant’s father is Alexander Ashbrook, a brilliant young aristocrat disinherited by his family for his devotion to a forbidden career, who is astonishingly unaware that he even has a son, much less that he has abandoned him.

The Track of the Wind: Surya - Book 3

Jamila Gavin

This final volume in THE WHEEL OF SURYA trilogy sees Jaspal and Marvinder reunited with their mother in India, but their fight for independence goes on, despite their father.