A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK
After a car accident Jarred discovers he'll never walk again. Confined
to a 'giant roller-skate', he finds himself with neither money nor job,
a shoplifting habit, an addiction to painkillers and strangers treating
him like he's an idiot. Worse still, he's forced to live back home with
his estranged father.
Trying to piece himself together, Jarred comes to realise that things
don't have to stay broken after all. The Coward is about hurt and
forgiveness, how the world treats disabled people, and how we write and
rewrite the stories we tell ourselves about our lives - and try to find
a happy ending.