The book of lost things
By: John Connolly
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781846177279
Subjects: Bereavement in children; Fiction
Description: Alone is his bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the loss of his mother. With only the books on his shelf for company, he takes refuge in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother and finds that the real world and the fantasy world have begun to meld. The Crooked Man has come, with his enigmatic words: 'Welcome, your majesty. All hail the new king." And as war rages across Europe, David is violently propelled into a land that is both a construct of his imagination yet frighteningly real; a strange reflection of his own world composed of myths and stories, populated by wolves and worse-than-wolves, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book.
Notes: Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006.