A spellbinding tale about what the human heart can inflict & the mind endure.
Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, & dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined.
Louis miraculously survives
- but the family has been shattered. Louis father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, & Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge.
In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical logic, startling Dannachet out of his safe preconceptions, & drawing him inexorably into the dark heart of Louis buried world. Only Louis holds the key to the mystery surrounding his fall
- & he cant communicate. Or can he?