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Biographical note
David Almond is the author of Skellig, My Name is Mina, Island, Bone Music and many other novels, stories, picture books, opera librettos, songs and plays. His work is translated into 40 languages, and is widely adapted for stage and screen. His major awards include the Carnegie Medal, two Whitbread Awards, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, the Michael L Printz Award (USA), Le Prix Sorcières (France), the Nonino International Prize, the James Kruss Prize and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. He has also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world's most prestigious prize for children's authors. In 2021, David was awarded an OBE for services to literature. David speaks at festivals and conferences around the world. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. He is widely regarded as one of the most exciting, inspirational and innovative children's authors writing today. He has one amazing daughter. He lives in Newcastle, the city in which he was born. www.davidalmond.comAn affecting meditation on pain, cruelty, class, belonging and the redeeming power of love.
The Sunday Times
A beautiful and brilliant novel. There really is nobody quite like Almond.
The Times
This is beautifully written and polished to a lapidary gloss.
The Guardian
A wonderful novel.
The Times
An astonishing, beautiful tale. Almond at his best.
The Daily Telegraph
A tale so marvellously told it seems a shame to label it as only for children.
The Daily Telegraph
Stays with you long after the book is closed.
The Guardian
Almond makes familiar issues fresh; his characters are finely drawn and his depiction of place perfectly realised.
The Guardian
Lyrical and atmospheric.
The Bookseller
A near-perfect piece of fiction.
Time Out
Luminous prose...every character is perfectly served by this fearless writer.
The Guardian
Subtle and energetic...a powerful and evocative study of loss.
The Times
[A] strange and haunting story.
The Observer
Once in a while a book comes along that takes over your head and your heart. [This is] such a book.
The Bookseller
Almond's best book yet...masterful in every aspect.
Financial Times
Gripping doesn't do it justice - it sweeps you up and wraps itself around you.
The Sunday Express
An uplifting, beautifully written story.
Independent on Sunday
A beautifully written, warm-hearted book. Almond's poetic, though gritty, prose avoids the pitfalls of sentimentality.
The Observer
Almond's books are always moving, uplifting tributes to the human spirit.
The Scotsman