Together they form a found family, bound together by their individual circumstances and dark pasts, tangled in Arden’s web. He leads you to the powerfully seductive clutches of Arden, a girl who collects runaways like modern day Lost Boys, except far from holding on to the innocence of childhood, Arden’s children are forced to grow up fast and face the harsh realities of living on the streets. He will grab your heart strings and run with them. Mute but with a loud personality, the ferocity of his love and Silence’s loyalty and determination is just as likely to lead him into trouble as out of it. He scampers through life with an ageless quick fingered agility, rescuing Friday in her time of need. One of the most beautifully crafted characters it is the endearing Silence who captures your heart from the moment he appears at the train station. Lost and alone, her plan soon derails and she finds herself trying to stay afloat, surrounded by dangers and haunted by her memories, stumbling onto a train platform that changes her life forever. Friday sets out to the city determined to find her father.

But when her mother is the latest in a long line of women in their family to drown mysteriously on a Saturday, there seems to be nothing left to do but run. How far would you go to outrun a curse you aren’t sure you believe in? Named to avoid a tragic fate, Friday was raised on the open road of the blistering Australian outback and her mother’s hazy campfire stories. The story combines contemporary realism with myth and memory to create an incredible psychological thriller.

From the very first page, Friday grabbed me by the hand and pulled me along on the whirlwind tsunami of her journey – a definite contender for favourite book of 2013. This review was cross posted to Hot Key Books blog for UK Independent Booksellers Week 2013.įRIDAY BROWN is a heartrending new novel by Vikki Wakefield. This book is absolutely amazingly written, I really enjoyed reading ” Friday Brown”.Purchase hereįriday Brown – Buy it (aka Friday Never Leaving) In a train station, Friday makes friends with a boy called Silence, who is a ghostly white and has silvery hair.

It has been foretold that on a Saturday, I will drown…”.įriday Brown’s mother, Vivienne, dies and seventeen year old Friday is trying to escape from her memories of her mother and the family curse. All the women in the Brown family have been cursed, they all have drowned or choked to death. Reviewed by Mango Bubbles Boy (8)įriday Brown is a girl.

Friday Brown by Vikki Wakefield