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Price: £9.99
Online Discount: 10.00%
Your Price: £8.99
EAN: 9780370329369
Format: Hardback
Published: 3 May 2007
Other Editions:
Paperback
Synopsis
Samuel Blink is the hero of this story, but he doesn't know it yet. Right now, he and his sister Martha are in the back of his parents car. He has no idea a giant log is about to fall from the sky and change his life forever. He doesn't know that he and Martha will be forced to move to Norway and eat their Aunt Eda's smelly brown cheese. He hasn't the slightest clue Martha will disappear into Shadow Forest. A forest full of one-eyed trolls, the sinister huldre-folk, deadly Truth Pixies and a witch who steals shadows. A forest ruled by the evil Changemaker. A forest so dangerous that people who enter never return.
No. Samuel Blink doesn't know any of this. So don't tell him. It might ruin the book . . .
What the critics say
This is an outstanding piece of literature. For someone's first children's book, it is a great piece of work.
- The Times
Weaves horror and humour into a terrific tale.
- Amanda Craig, The Times
A really great read that is difficult to put down
- TBK
This is a seriously good book!
- Teen Titles
Marvellous stuff for confident readers.
- Norwich Evening News
Editor's Comments
This book is a real children’s book. A timeless classic that I’m so proud to be publishing. Matt Haig knows that all the best adventures happen when parents aren’t around so he kills off the parents in this book in the first chapter and sends two orphans to live abroad with their strange aunt next to an enchanted forest. Their aunt has many rules but the main one is: Don’t go into the forest! And so, as in all the best children’s books, the children end up in the forest and have the most incredible of adventures meeting shadow witches, truth pictures, two-headed trolls, sleepy slemps and the terrifying huldres. A wonderful book to be read by torchlight under the covers!!