This book is the winner of the World Book Day - Books to Talk About Prize 2008. Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2005. Winner of the Waverton Good Read Prize 2005. A is for Apple. A bad apple. Jack has spent most of his life in juvenile institutions, to be released with a new name, new job, new life. At 24, he is utterly innocent of the world, yet guilty of a monstrous childhood crime. To his new friends, he is a good guy with occasional flashes of unexpected violence. To his new girlfriend, he is strangely inexperienced and unreachable. To his case worker, he's a victim of the system and of media-driven hysteria. And to himself, Jack is on permanent trial: can he really start from scratch, forget the past, become someone else? Is a new name enough? Can Jack ever truly connect with his new friends while hiding a monstrous secret? This searing and heartfelt novel is a devastating indictment of society's inability to reconcile childhood innocence with reality.

喬納森．崔格爾 Jonathan Trigell

1974 年齣生於英格蘭韋林加登城（Welwyn Garden City），2002 年於曼徹斯特大學（Manchester University）取得創意寫作碩士學位。

《男孩 A》為崔格爾的初試啼聲之作，榮獲世界書香日最佳書籍、萊思紀念獎以及韋佛頓閱讀獎，已譯為法文、西班牙文、義大利文、荷蘭文、韓文，使得他被譽為英國最值得注目的新銳小說傢。

《男孩 A》更在 2008 年改編為電影《心靈鐵窗》，同樣獲得極高評價，包括：柏林影展天主教人道精神獎；英國影藝學院最佳導演、最佳男演員、最佳剪輯、最佳攝影；英國丁納德影展最佳影片、最佳導演、劇本、攝影。