A Boy Off The Bank

This poignant and heartwarming tale focuses on the struggles of an arduous and challenging job, as seen from a narrow boat’s back cabin by a young boy. A Boy Off the Bank is the first book in a trilogy (A Girl at the Tiller, A Boy Off The Bank, and The New Number One).

He has taken all that his miserable life can throw at him – beaten mentally and physically by his drunken father, treated like a skivvy by his hard-working mother. The final blow is when his pet dog is taken away as well; this leads him to commit suicide on a January night in 1940. However, things don’t go as planned…