Canning, Victor Smiler Trilogy. #bk. 1

Read by John Higgins

On a night of wild storms, two troubled figures escape from captivity. One is a 15-year-old boy, Samuel Miles, 'Smiler', wrongly convicted of theft and sent to a young offenders institution. The other is a cheetah, Yarra, a restless resident of Longleat Wildlife Park. Both are in danger from the outside world - and each other - but somehow their lives become inextricably bound up as they fight for survival on the edge of Salisbury Plain. A fast-moving and compassionate adventure story, The Runaways is the first book in Victor Canning's classic children's trilogy

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