The Children of Platform Six

von William Gomes

308 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A thirteen-year-old boy disappears. His twelve-year-old friend knows that one small detail does not make sense.On the Lincolnshire coast, twelve-year-old Ruhena "Ruhi" Choudhury notices things other people miss. She counts steps, remembers times and reads official letters closely enough to understand what they really say.When her friend Ashik Rahman disappears from the fictional seaside town of Salterthorpe, Ruhi cannot stop thinking about Platform Six, an abandoned railway platform hidden behind a damaged fence. Beneath it lies a chamber and a tidal culvert used by local children. And tied to the fence is a length of blue twine governed by a simple rule: the last person out unties it.The twine remains knotted.As the days become weeks, Ashik's disappearance becomes a collection of reports, reference numbers, risk assessments, searches and competing explanations. Ruhi watches information being written down accurately while crucial connections remain unseen. A family waits. Children hold back things they are afraid to say. Rumour fills the spaces left by certainty. And beneath the abandoned platform lies a dangerous structure that seems to belong fully to no one.Told through Ruhi's precise, distinctive voice and interwoven with fictional official records, The Children of Platform Six is a literary mystery about friendship, guilt, grief, class, prejudice and institutional fragmentation, and about the difference between recording a fact and understanding what it means.A haunting novel about what children know, what adults fail to ask, and what can happen when every part of a system holds only one piece of the truth.

• ISBN: 9798194191093
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.08.2026
• Größe: 198 x 129 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp