"A spellbinding tale of hope and redemption." Jan Newton, Remember No More
"Heart breaking, heart warming, at times very funny and always real." Kate Granville, The Secret River
Best friends Mackie and Sharon feel trapped working at a scrapyard in Swansea. Sharon, a charismatic club singer, dreams of a glamorous future on a cruise ship, while Mackie struggles as a weary foster parent to his wayward daughter's twins.
But their lives take an unexpected turn when they discover a mysterious kid trapped in a scrap car. The kid has an extraordinary gift - he can draw the future. As Mackie agrees to protect him, they are thrust into a world of uncertainty. Who is the kid hiding from? Who is hunting him?
In his quest to safeguard the kid, Mackie must confront his deepest fears?
Exploring the indomitable spirit to overcome life's challenges and start afresh, Scrap is a captivating human fable of friendship and second chances.
A quirky contemporary fable set in Swansea
From the author of five-star reviewed The Luck (2022) comes the eagerly awaited Scrap: a modern fable about the human capacity to overcome the hand life deals us and start afresh.
Life has become stale for best friends Mackie and Sharon, who never imagined they'd end up working in a scrapyard. Sharon has dreams of becoming a cruise ship star, while a browbeaten Mackie cares for his wayward daughter's twins. But fate takes an unexpected turn when a mysterious kid is discovered in the boot of a car. He has a remarkable gift -- he can draw visions of the future, and this opens up new avenues that neither could have foreseen ...
Praise for Kathy's previous book
Biggs succeeds in tying all the missing pieces of the puzzle at the very end of the narrative, leaving the readers to brood on their miscalculations of outcome and on a pivotal, jaw-dropping moment of realisation. Here lies the creative genius of Biggs. Nation Cymru, Chinyere Chukwudi-Okeh.