num_pages: 247
description: Grave robbing is a messy business. A bad business.And for Thomas Marsden on what was an unremarkable spring night in London it becomes a very spooky business. For lying in an unmarked grave and half covered with dirt is a boy the spitting image of Thomas himself.This is only the first clue that something very strange is happening. Others follow but it is a fortune tellers frightened screams that lead Thomas into a strange world of spiritualists death and faery folk.Faery folk with whom Thomass life is bizarrely linked. Faery folk who need his help.Desperate to unearth the truth about himself and where he comes from Thomas is about to discover magic and ritual and that sometimes just sometimes the things that make a boy ordinary are what make him extraordinary.
language: English
title: The Accidental Afterlife of Thomas Marsden
publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers