Diver makes waves with book prize win

5th November 2010, 12:00am

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Diver makes waves with book prize win

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Deep-sea diver Gregory Hughes has won the 2010 Booktrust Teenage Prize for his novel Unhooking the Moon. The book is about a girl called Rat and her brother Bob, who travel to New York to find their drug-dealer uncle after their father’s death. The judges described the book as poignant, funny and gripping. Mr Hughes receives a #163;2,500 cheque and a trophy.

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