About the Book: Suncatcher
Ceylon is on the brink of change. But Kairo is at a loose end. School is closed,
the government is in disarray, the press is under threat and the religious right
are flexing their muscles. Kairos hard-working mother blows off steam at her
cha¬cha¬cha classes; his Trotskyite father grumbles over the state of the nation
between his secret flutters on horseraces in faraway England. All Kairo wants to
do is hide in his room and flick over second-hand westerns and superhero comics,
or escape on his bicycle and daydream. Then he meets the magnetic teenage Jay,
and his whole world is turned inside