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Second Best

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1913547744
ISBN-13 9781913547745
Publisher Pushkin Press
Imprint Gallic Books
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jul 11th, 2024
Print length 216 Pages
Weight 236 grams
Dimensions 19.70 x 12.90 x 1.50 cms
Ksh 1,800.00
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'An exquisitely bittersweet comedy of life's missed opportunities' Jonathan Coe, author of Bournville A magical imagining of the fate of a fictional boy whose life is shaped forever when he loses out on the role of Harry Potter. It's 1999. Martin Hill is ten years old, crazy about Arsenal and has a minor crush on a girl named Betty. Then he makes it to the final two in the casting for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. In the end, the other boy is picked for the role of a lifetime. A devastated Martin tries to move on with his life. But how can he escape his failure, especially when it's the most famous film series in the world? Foenkinos’s smash-hit Second Best is a playful, poignant story about fate, loss and how the lives we wish we’d led might not be all they’re cracked up to be . . .

''An exquisitely bittersweet comedy of life''s missed opportunities'' Jonathan Coe, author of Bournville 

A magical imagining of the fate of a fictional boy whose life is shaped forever when he loses out on the role of Harry Potter.

It''s 1999. Martin Hill is ten years old, crazy about Arsenal and has a minor crush on a girl named Betty. Then he makes it to the final two in the casting for Harry Potter and the Philosopher''s Stone

In the end, the other boy is picked for the role of a lifetime. A devastated Martin tries to move on with his life. But how can he escape his failure, especially when it''s the most famous film series in the world? 

Foenkinos’s smash-hit Second Best is a playful, poignant story about fate, loss and how the lives we wish we’d led might not be all they’re cracked up to be . . .


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