Against the grim backdrop of a Bradford housing estate, two wayward teenagers - the volatile Arbor and his softly spoken friend, Swifty - begin "scrapping" for a metal dealer when they are expelled from school. Drawn into an underworld of theft, violence and illegal racing, Arbor and Swifty must decide what it means to be a man in a world that wants to forget you exist.
'THE SELFISH GIANT' STORIES
Tragic and bleak yet beautiful and powerful, Barnard’s documentary background has worked wonders in her first work of fiction, 'The Selfish Giant'.