
Kit has just moved to Stoneygate with his family to live with his ageing grandfather who is gradually succumbing to Alzheimer's Disease Stoneygate is an insular place scarred by its mining history
- by the danger & death it has brought them Where the coal mine used to be there is now a wilderness Here Kit meets Askew a surly & threatening figure who masterminds the game called Death a frightening ritual of hypnotism; & Kit makes friends with Allie the clever school troublemaker As Kit struggles to adjust to his new life & the gradual failing of his beloved grandfather these two friendships pull him towards a terrifying resolution Haunted by ghosts of the past Kit must confront death &
- ultimately
- life A stunning novel from the author of the modern children's classic Skellig
- winner of the Carnegie Medal & the Whitbread Children's Book Award David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award