Boy Swallows Universe

Title: Boy Swallows

Universe

Author: Trent Dalton

Price: $21.90

Distributor: Booktopia

By Samantha Elley

You may have already seen the Netfix series, but it is defnitely worth giving the book a read too.

Set in the early 1980s Eli Bell is just a normal kid with nothing like a normal upbringing.

Even his baby sitter isn’t normal, being the infamous Boggo Road escape artist, Slim Halliday.

Did Slim really kill that taxi-driver?

His brother doesn’t talk, his mother is in jail and his step-father, a local drug dealer, goes missing, so Eli and his brother, Gus, then have to go and live with their alcoholic father.

But what each of these characters has, is heart. They are fallible humans who are doing what they think is best,