Stay With Me, Rhys
The heartbreaking story of Rhys Jones, by his mother. As seen on ITV’s new documentary Police Tapes
by Melanie Jones
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Pub Date 19 Apr 2018 | Archive Date 25 Apr 2018
Penguin Random House UK, Ebury Publishing | Virgin Books
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Description
‘Stay with me, Rhys,’ I kept saying over and over again. ‘Please stay with me. I love you.’
There was still no expression in his eyes. I was talking and talking to him, desperate to let him know I was there, but there was no flicker in his face. In hindsight, it was like he’d already gone.
It's a Wednesday evening in Liverpool in the summer holidays, and Melanie is expecting her Everton-mad eleven-year-old son back from football practice very soon. She turns on Coronation Street and sets about stripping the wallpaper off the walls in the lounge, which is long-overdue a makeover. Suddenly she receives a frantic knock at the door. Rhys has been shot on his way home.
From that fateful day when Melanie cradled her child as he lay dying, repeating to him ‘Stay with Me, Rhys’, to the day in court when his killers were finally sent down, this is a story of a family in trauma, of a community united behind them and of how a notorious local gang who terrorised the neighbourhood was brought to justice.
In 2017, more than 7 million people watched the drama unfold in the highly-acclaimed ITV series Little Boy Blue. And now Melanie Jones tells the family's unbelievable story for the first time.
Melanie, her husband Steve and Rhys’s brother Owen have been through unimaginable pain. The grief doesn’t go away, but the strength they’ve found within it is an inspiration.
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9780753552292 |
PRICE | £7.99 (GBP) |
PAGES | 320 |
Featured Reviews
When I saw on the British TV programme, This Morning, that the parents of 11 year old Rhys Jones, being interviewed, I just knew when they said that his mother had written a book that I just had to get myself a copy.
In this book we get told the events that lead up to Rhys getting shot, the heartbreaking family trauma, a community that is united behind them and the day in court when the killers were sentenced. There was a TV series recently called Little Boy Blue based on this true story. I do recommend this book. Just make sure to have plenty of tissues handy!
I would like to thank NetGalley, Penguin Random House UK and the Melanie Jones for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.
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