Book Digest: The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson
The book is a story about finding friendship when you’re lonely, and hope when all you feel is fear.
Lisa Thompson’s debut novel ‘The Goldfish Boy’ is a page-turning mystery with an emotionally-driven and complex character study at its core. The book is a story about finding friendship when you’re lonely, and hope when all you feel is fear.
Matthew Corbin suffers from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder. He hasn’t been to school in weeks. His hands are cracked and bleeding from cleaning. He refuses to leave his bedroom. To pass the time, he observes his neighbours from his bedroom window, making mundane notes about their habits. When a toddler staying next door goes missing, it becomes apparent that Matthew was the last person to see him alive. There’s some mild scariness and Matthew frequently revisits his feelings of guilt over the death of a baby brother a few years before. Suddenly, Matthew finds himself at the center of a high-stakes mystery, and every one of his neighbours is a suspect. Matthew is the key to figuring out what happened and potentially saving a child’s life, but is he able to do so if it means exposing his own secrets, and stepping out from the safety of his home?
Matthew is a positive role model for finding the courage to do things he’s scared of and learning that he can do more than he thinks he can.
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