Author:
Julie Shaw
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The infamous Canterbury Estate in Bradford, a hotbed of crime, drink and drugs, was a law unto itself in the โ70s. So when one of their own was wronged in any way, the community always had its own way of dealing with it.
The first title in a series of gritty family sagas, Our Vinnie accounts the dramatic true story of a brotherโs determination to avenge his younger sisterโs rape. Josie was just 11 when her Vinnie, then 14, was taken away to a detention centre. Distraught by his absence and left alone with indifferent parents, when she escapes from one of their rows she naively enters the house of a neighbour, Melvin, who โ horrifically โ leads her upstairs and overpowers her.
Convinced by her friend Carol, Josie tells her sister Lyndsey about the rape but, with Vinnie out of the picture, Lyndsey uses the information for her own ends. When Vinnie returns, hardened by years inside the system, his outrage on discovering the truth is severe. And with new abuses continually coming to light, a cataclysmic series of violent events begins to spiral out of controlโฆ
Dramatic and shocking, Our Vinnie is an unbelievable page-turner, documenting a community forsaken by society, and one brotherโs unrelenting determination to take justice into his own hands.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Jim Millea
ISBN:
9780007596232
Length:
9 hours 6 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:
November 6, 2014
Edition:
Unabridged