Product Description

I could hear Dennis talking to my ma. 'She was little,' he said. 'Little like me. But old. Older than you.' Those words gave me a cold shock. I could see Dennis imagining fairies, but old ones? When Bobby's mother moves the family into a rented house in the country, a neighbour tells him that a child was once murdered there. Bobby doesn't care. All he wants is to get back to Dublin and to resume his wild life there, stealing from the crowded shopping streets and racing stolen cars at night. But getting his old life back doesn't turn out to be so easy, and the longer he spends in the old cottage, the more convinced he becomes that something very strange is going on there. Was there really a murder? And if so, was it the one he has been told about?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #94159 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

From the Inside Flap
front flap:

I could hear Dennis talking to my ma. ‘She was little,’ he said. ‘Little like me. But old. Older than you.’ Those words gave me a cold shock. I could see Dennis imagining fairies, but old ones?

When Bobby’s mother moves the family into a rented house in the country, a neighbour tells him that a child was once murdered there. Bobby doesn’t care. All he wants is to get back to Dublin and to resume his wild life there, stealing from the crowded shopping streets and racing stolen cars at night. But getting his old life back doesn’t turn out to be so easy, and the longer he spends in the old cottage, the more convinced he becomes that something very strange is going on there.

Was there really a murder? And if so, was it the one he has been told about?

From the Back Cover
‘Kate Thompson writes with marvellous and magical ease’ TES

About the Author
Kate Thompson is one of the most exciting authors writing for young people today for she is a born storyteller, highly original and thought provoking in her ideas. She has travelled widely in the USA and India and studied law in London. After living in County Clare, she moved to Kinvara in County Galway and it was there that she discovered her passion for playing the fiddle. She is now an accomplished player and also has a great interest in restoring instruments. Kate is a multi-award winning author and the only author to win the Children's Books Ireland Bisto Book of the Year award four times.

Customer Reviews

Mysterious Adventure
This book was a non-stop, eeire journey of Bobby, a boy from Dublin, forced to leave his city life of joyriding, stealing, gangs and drugs for a quiet country town. His younger brother claims to have seen a creature of the night. Suddenly old neighbours' tales don't seem so fictional as an unexplained disappearance, gossip about a murder and eeire scratches at the dog flap mean that Bobby must try to tame his wild side.
I am a 14 year old girl, but that is not to say that it cannot be enjoyed by boys, in fact it may be of a more male read. There is a certain amount of swearing included in this book. Personally I found it very intriguing and I could not put it down! It is a definite page-turner and I highly recommend it.

Overall dissapointing...
I really enjoyed the beginning of this book, as I thought the characters where believable, their situation was interesting and there seemed to be a lot of mysterious twists that makes you want to read on.

However, for me, a lot of the book (particularly in the middle) was irrelevant, pointless and quite boring. I was unsure as to who the book is meant to be aimed at, it starts of well, but the middle seems to be aimed mainly at teenage boys, as there's a lot of swearing, talk of stealing and other stuff, then it suddenly switches to the supposed "main storyline" (which, by the way, came across really weak) about fairies. The annoying thing is that the ending doesn't resolve the mystery, it still leaves you in the air...

But I think it's worth reading if your over 13 because it's (apart from the plot) well written and at times can be scary and intersting.

Gripping stuff
Frightening, funny, sad and hopeful. Kate Thompson makes every aspect very real - especially the parts that could be imaginary.