The fire-eaters
By: David Almond
Contributors: Hodder Children's Books
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780340773826
Subjects: Young adult fiction; Conduct of life; Juvenile fiction; History; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; Hope; Fiction
Description: This is the story of two months in the life of Bobby Burns who leads a happy life with his parents in Keely Bay until, suddenly, his whole world seems to fall apart - It all seems to follow his meeting with McNulty.
Notes: "Parts of this novel appeared, in an earlier form, in the magazines Panurge and Stand and in A Kind of Heaven ..."--Title page verso.

Whitbread Children's Book award ; Smarties Book Prize Gold award.