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    The Runaways
    The Runaways
    The Runaways
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Runaways

    Written by Victor Canning

    Narrated by John Higgins

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    About this audiobook

    On a night of wild storms, two troubled figures escape from captivity.


    One is a 15-year-old boy, Samuel Miles, a.k.a. ‘Smiler’, wrongly convicted of theft and sent to a young offenders institution. The other is a cheetah, Yarra, a restless resident of Longleat Wildlife Park.


    Both are in danger from the outside world – and each other – but somehow their lives become inextricably bound up as they fight for survival on the edge of Salisbury Plain.


    A fast-moving and compassionate adventure story, The Runaways is the first book in Victor Canning's classic children's trilogy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDuckworth Books
    Release dateNov 11, 2022
    ISBN9781788424387
    The Runaways
    Author

    Victor Canning

    Victor Canning was a prolific writer, his first novel published when he was just 23. His later thrillers were dark and complex, and received great critical acclaim. "The Rainbird Pattern" was awarded the CWA Silver Dagger in 1973. In 1976 it was transformed by Alfred Hitchcock into the comic film The Family Plot. He also wrote pseudonymously as Julian Forest and Alan Gould. He died in February 1986 in Cirencester.

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