Lean on Pete

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An unforgettable story of a friendship and of hope in dark times.

Catch-your-breath good. EILEEN BATTERSY, IRISH TIMES
Powerful, heartbreaking stuff. MARK BILLINGHAM
A cult classic.METRO
This guy is a real discovery. COLM TOIBIN

Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home; food on the table; a high school he can attend for more than part of a year; and some structure to his life. But as the son of a single father working at warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, hes been pretty much on his own for some time.

Lean on Pete opens as he and his father arrive in Portland, Oregon and Charley takes a stables job, illegally, at the local race track. Once part of a vibrant racing network, Portland Meadows is now seemingly the last haven for washed up jockeys and knackered horses, but its there that Charley meets Pete, an old horse who becomes his companion as hes forced to try to make his own way in the world.