---

A bold, irreverent and tender novel about a young carer from the Costa Children´s Award winning author of When Mr Dog Bites and The Bombs That Brought Us Together

---

Angry and irreverent, tender and poignant - this is a bold exploration of the lengths to which we´ll go for the ones we love. From the Costa Children´s Award winning author of When Mr Dog Bites and The Bombs That Brought Us Together. Perfect for readers of Patrick Ness and Malorie Blackman.
´Child experts will tell you that I´m way too young to carry such a burden of responsibility on my tender shoulders. But really, what do they know?´

Who is Bobby Seed?

He´s just your average sixteen-year-old - same wants, same fears, same hang-ups. Dull, dull, dull.

But then there´s the Bobby Seed who´s a world away from average. The Bobby Seed who has to wipe his mum´s backside, sponge her clean three times a week, try to soothe her pain. The Bobby Seed whose job it is to provide for his younger brother, Danny, to rub his back when he´s stressed and can only groan and rock instead of speak.

That´s Bobby Seed. Same, same, same, yet different, different, different .

---

Beautifully observed and hilariously uncomfortable Praise for WHEN MR DOG BITES: Guardian

---

Brian Conaghan was born and raised in the Scottish town of Coatbridge but now lives in Dublin. He has a Master of Letters in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. For many years Brian worked as a teacher and taught in Scotland, Italy and Ireland. His novels include The Boy Who Made It Rain, published in 2011, When Mr Dog Bites - which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2015 and attracted both praise and controversy for its honest, moving and humorous depiction of a teenage boy with Tourette´s syndrome - and The Bombs That Brought Us Together, winner of the Costa Children´s Book Award 2016.

---