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A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK
Question: What''s worse than being in a wheelchair?
Answer: Being a fuck-up in a wheelchair.
After a car accident Jarred discovers he''ll never walk again. Confined to a ''giant roller-skate'', he finds himself with neither money nor job. Worse still, he''s forced to live back home with the father he hasn''t spoken to in ten years.
Add in a shoplifting habit, an addiction to painkillers and the fact that total strangers now treat him like he''s an idiot, it''s a recipe for self-destruction. How can he stop himself careering out of control?
As he tries to piece his life together again, he looks back over his past - the tragedy that blasted his family apart, why he ran away, the damage he''s caused himself and others - and starts to wonder whether, maybe, things don''t always have to stay broken after all.
The Coward is about hurt and forgiveness. It''s about how the wo
