Why a Booktrail?
2000s: A boy tries to find out why his father left all those years ago..
Little Big Love
What you need to know before your trail
Liam Jones is the love of Juliet’s life. He was her brother’s best friend first, then hers, then the father of her son. In those shining weeks after Zac was born, she’d never been happier, and neither had Liam.
Until the night he disappeared without a trace.
Zac is now ten, and collects facts: octopuses have three hearts; the world’s heaviest man weighed over 100 stone; only three species of animal have a blue tongue. The one piece of information he really wants, though, is the truth about why his father left.
His family refuse to talk about that night but when Juliet inadvertently admits to him Liam is the only man she’s ever loved, Zac decides to find him and give his mum a second chance at happy ever after.
After all, nothing can stand in the way of true love . . . Or can it?
Locations
Reset- England - Lincolnshire - Grimsby
- A: Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre
- B: Grimsby Train station
- C: Grimsby Docks
- D: Grimsby docks
- E: The Lake
Travel Guide
Travel to Grimsby for some Little Big Love
This tale of a boy on the search for the father he’s never met is set in a gritty northern town. Grimsby is a town in Lincolnshire devastated by the decline of its former fishing industry. The mum and son live in small apartment in a tower block which looks over the town. It’s not a place of opportunity of hope it would seem, yet there is a sense of community and warmth to the writing and characters.
Grimsby, also Great Grimsby, is a large coastal English seaport in Lincolnshire, on the South Bank of the Humber Estuary, close to where it reaches the North Sea. It used to run the largest fishing fleet in the world in the mid-20th century, but since then the town has suffered post-industrial decline. Food manufacturing has been encouraged since the 1990s however.
During the second world war, the Royal Dock was used as the UK’s largest base for minesweepers to patrol the North Sea.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Little Big Love
Destination: Grimsby Author/guide: Katy Regan Departure: 2000s
Back to ResultsWhere Next?
