The House on Adelphi Street is a coming-of-age novel that is very much a raw, honest and intimate voice, that of a friend telling you a secret.
When the fourteen-year old narrator relocates into a run-down house on Adelphi Street, he anticipates nothing more than dust, quiet and the heavy silence of a lack of the laughter of his father. After that, he encounters Andre--a troubled lad with a wicked smile and the ability to make a kingdom out of a shattered one. They come up with games in the broken driveways together, make an old gas station their battlement, and pursue the excitement of dares that get nearer to the danger.
Friendship made in the dark comes at a price. One wild night evolves into something neither can take back and the narrator must face the reality of what he is turning out to be- and what is left once one you have changed is gone without a goodbye.
