A review by nandanz
State Ward by Alan Duff

5.0

"Life, eh, like George was trying to say: it's about deeds. Good deeds, Charlie guessed. Good deeds making for a longer life. Just like, Charlie got a sudden realization, like being in the cellblock: seemed to take for ever, yet when it was passed it hardly seemed anything at all. Only what you took of it. And what, a boy figured, it took of you - if you let it."