Blood Family - Anne Fine (Paperback) 03-04-2014 Short-listed for Blue Peter Book Awards 2014 (UK) and Carnegie Medal 2014 (UK) and Grampian Childrens Book Award 2015 (UK). Long-listed for Blackpool Fiction of the Year Award 2013 (UK) and UKLA Book Aw

Edward is four years old when he is locked away with his mother by her abusive, alcoholic partner, Harris. By the time an elderly neighbour spots his pale face peering through a crack in the boarded-up window and raises the alarm, he is seven. Rescue comes, but lasting damage has been done. Sent to live with a kindly foster family, and then adopted, Edward struggles to adapt to normal life. Even as a teenager it's still clear to his new family and schoolmates there's something odd about him. Then one fateful day, Edward catches a glimpse of himself in a photograph. What he sees shocks him to the core - a vision of Harris. Was this monster his father all along? And does that mean that, deep down, another Harris is waiting to break out? Every step of progress Edward has made swiftly begins to unravel, and he has to decide whether his blood will determine his future.