“I lay for hour thinking about London, my old bedroom and the Dad-shaped hole in my life.”

“My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.”

“He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much I tried to cling onto his memory.”

“I knew now that we were never going to be a proper family again.”

“I wanted to tell her that Luka wasn't like any other boy I'd ever know before. Not because he was a ghost. Because he was Luka.”

“He was one of those people who completely changes when they smile. Like the sun had come out.”

“It seemed like five minutes later we were here, the Land That Time Forgot, watching the removal van disappear round the corner like a last hope.”