The Coward Av Jarred Mcginnis

<p><b>A BBC TWO <i>BETWEEN THE COVERS</i> BOOK CLUB PICK</b><br><b><br>Question: </b>What''s worse than being in a wheelchair?<br><b>Answer: </b>Being a fuck-up in a wheelchair.<br><br>After a car accident Jarred discovers he''ll never walk again. Confined to a ''giant roller-skate'', he finds himself with neither money nor job. Worse still, he''s forced to live back home with the father he hasn''t spoken to in ten years.<br><br>Add in a shoplifting habit, an addiction to painkillers and the fact that total strangers now treat him like he''s an idiot, it''s a recipe for self-destruction. How can he stop himself careering out of control?<br><br>As he tries to piece his life together again, he looks back over his past - the tragedy that blasted his family apart, why he ran away, the damage he''s caused himself and others - and starts to wonder whether, maybe, things don''t always have to stay broken after all.<br><br><i>The Coward</i> is about hurt and forgiveness. It''s about how the wo