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360:: Son of Rosie and Gary. Four years old. Hugo is frustrated while trying to play with the older children, and waves a cricket bat around - the mother is seen as very responsive and in touch with her son's needs prior to this, but is momentarily distracted and Hugo is struck across his face by Harry - an adult male.
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The story is told through the voices of eight characters, in third person and each in a chapter of their own. "The reverberations of the slap ... chronologically through each character's story". The characters range from two
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