The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean

This tale is told by 1 that died at birth by 1 that came into the world in days of endles war & at the moment of disaster. Billy Dean is a secret child, growing up in the dark heart of Blinkbonny. He has a beautiful young mother and a father who arrives at night carrying the scent of incense and cigarettes. His world is just a bed, some pictures of the holy island and a single locked door, but his father fills his dreams with mysterious tales and dreadful warnings. When his father disappears, Billy's mum brings him out into the world, and he learns the dreadful truth of what happened in Blinkbonny on the day he was born. Gradually he finds he has the gift of helping to rebuild what has been broken. But there is one figure who is beyond healing, who comes looking for Billy himself and is determined on a kind of reckoning. I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tale. David Almond's extraordinary first novel for adults is the story of a child, born of sin, who emerges into a post-industrial, almost apocalyptic world where the force of his innocence is tested to the extreme.

ISBN 0670919055   Pages 272 ISBN13 9780670919055 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 504 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd   Published in London Imprint Viking   Height (mm) 240 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 162 Publication date 01 Sep 2011   Spine width (mm) 27 DEWEY 823.92   Academic level Teenage / young adult DEWEY edition DC22   Interest age from 12

Truly original -- Philip Pullman Guardian A master storyteller Independent Almond's work, like the best of literature for children, is in fact simply literature The Times

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