<p>A tragic fall in the Karoo in which one of his brothers dies and the other loses all memory of the day changes the life of young John Hyde irrevocably. <br>In London many years later, the reappearance of his remaining brother disrupts the delicate life John has built, and brings an unsettling recollection of the events that ripped their family apart.<br>Pulled back to South Africa in spite of himself, John returns to the home he grew up in to face a past that haunts him.<br>In language pulled so tightly it sings, Alastair Bruce's Boy on the Wire is an elegy to our fragile memory and the lives entangled in it.</p>