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100			_aMitchard, Jacquelyn, _97894 _d1965- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Good Son.
260			_a[S.I.] : _bMIRA Books, _c2022.
300			_a352 p. ;
520			_aFrom No.1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes the gripping, emotionally charged novel of a mother who must help her son after he is convicted of a devastating crime. What do you do when the person you love best becomes unrecognisable to you? For Thea Demetriou, the answer is both simple and agonising: you keep loving him somehow. Stefan was just seventeen when he went to prison for the drug-fuelled murder of his girlfriend, Belinda. Three years later, he's released to a world that refuses to let him move on. Belinda's mother, once Thea's good friend, galvanises the community to rally against him to protest in her daughter's memory. The media paints Stefan as a symbol of white privilege and indifferent justice. Neighbours, employers, even some members of Thea's own family turn away. Meanwhile Thea struggles to understand her son. At times, he is still the sweet boy he has always been; at others, he is a young man tormented by guilt and almost broken by his time in prison. But as his efforts to make amends meet escalating resistance and threats, Thea suspects more forces are at play than just community outrage. And if there is so much she never knew about her own son, what other secrets has she yet to uncover - especially about the night Belinda died?
650		0	_aMurder _xInvestigation _vFiction. _9537
650		0	_aFamilies _vFiction. _9128
650		0	_aMothers and sons _vFiction. _93477
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