Blackwell UK
The Tooth Fairy
ISBN: 9781857983425
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Edition: New edition
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Sam and his friends are like any gang of normal young boys. Roaming wild around the outskirts of their car-factory town. Daring adults to challenge their freedom.
Until the day Sam wakes to find the Tooth Fairy sitting on the edge of his bed. Not the benign figure of childhood myth, but an enigmatic presence that both torments and seduces him, changing his life forever. More
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'A deft, canny novel about growing up, cunningly disguised as a highly readable fairy story: a modern parable of loss and maturity' Iain M. Banks A story about a boy growing up in England in the 1960s - with one singular difference: He's haunted by a demonic Tooth Fairy that only he can see, but whose malignant influence spills over onto his family and friends. When seven-year-old Sam Southall loses a tooth, he's visited that night by a sinister, rank-smelling, foul-mouthed, mercurial Tooth Fairy. Slowly, The Tooth Fairy teaches Sam to make mischief at school, then insists that Sam have his friend Terry sleep over. That same night, Terry's father shoots his wife, his other children, and himself ...
