Download or read book Half a Pound of Tuppenny Rice written by David Coubrough and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The events of August 1972—a poisoning, a drowning and a possible cover-up—disturb the 17-year-old Grant Morrison. Forty years later, still obsessed with the case and the fear that his late mother might have been involved, Grant sets out to unravel the twisted network of the suspects' relationships while haunted by an old nursery rhyme sung by the echoing voice of a child.