Product Description

Michael was looking forward to moving into a new house. But now his baby sister is ill, his parents are frantic, and Doctor Death has come to call. Michael feels helpless. Then he steps into the crumbling garage and encounters a strange being who changes his world forever.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1195202 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.84" h x .76" w x 4.53" l, .24 pounds
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 182 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Michael can feel his sick baby sister's heart beating inside him, and as long as he can feel it he knows she is alive. But as her condition becomes life-threatening and the family faces the nightmare of an operation to save her life, Michael turns to his new friend Mina and the strange being, Skellig, who has been living beneath the crumbling garage at the family's new home.

In this most delicate and tender story of a young boy living in fear of death and coming to terms with life, you can almost touch the indefinable magic that Skellig--part owl, part human, part everything and nothing--brings to Michael's unsettled world.

With the gentle touch of an angel's breath, Almond, in his first novel for children, lets his characters think, feel and believe without overwhelming sentimentality. A dream of a book to touch even the hardest of hearts. --Susan Harrison

Review
' ... gripping, beautiful and brilliantly written ... Everyone is raving about this unforgettable book.' -- THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Truly original, mysterious and affecting ... Almond treads with delicate certainty, and the result is something genuine and true' -- PHILIP PULLMAN in THE GUARDIAN 'Tremendously innovative, highly original and very moving. David Almond is a fascinating new voice' -- MELVIN BURGESS

PHILIP PULLMAN in THE GUARDIAN
'Truly original, mysterious and affecting . . . Almond treads with delicate certainty, and the result is something genuine and true'