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For Mum
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About the Publisher
Me and this boy called Jamie were extras and scenery painters, doing background colours. Which was just about all right with us, if we had to be there at all. So I thought if anyone was on my side it would be Jamie. But he wasn’t. Especially not when he told Mrs Oliver that I was out the back doing dangerous things with the wiring.
Mrs Oliver blew a fuse and said I should explain myself. I looked at her and took a breath and I was about to speak, but