Samuel Blink is the hero of this story but he doesn't know it yet. Right now he & his sister Martha are in the back of his parents' car. He has no idea a giant log is about to fall from the sky & change his life forever. He doesn't know that he & Martha will be forced to move to Norway & eat their Aunt Eda's smelly brown cheese. He hasn't the slightest clue Martha will disappear into Shadow Forest. A forest full of one-eyed trolls the sinister huldre-folk deadly Truth Pixies & a witch who steals shadows. A forest ruled by the evil Changemaker. A forest so dangerous that people who enter never return. No. Samuel Blink doesn't know any of this. So don't tell him. It might ruin the book.. . Winner of the Gold Smarties Prize & the Blue Peter Award & shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal & the Waterstone's Prize.