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'Sparrow opens through an uncompromising window into a harsh world - a party of eight people and their adult supervisors on a broken-down boat travelling back to Derby in the north of Western Australia after a weeks boot camp. Radcliffe, volatile at the best of times, but totally unpredictable off his 'meds', puts a ho;e in the fuel line and the fuel tank (and the boat) blows blows up. Our main character, known then only as 'the boy' dives overboard and turns his back on the mess of the boat and the mess of his prison life.' (Introduction)
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