Felix secretly lives with his mum and pet gerbil in a van. His mum insists these conditions are temporary, as Felix struggles to hide his homelessness from his friends. From the author of }Optimists Die First{ Felix Knutsson is nearly thirteen, lives with his mother and pet gerbil Horatio, and is brilliant at memorising facts and trivia. So when Felix starts at a new school, he does his very best to hide the fact that most of his clothes are in storage, he only showers weekly at the community centre, and that he doesn’t have enough to eat.
