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Following the death of his father, a boy turns to writing as a way to process grief. In his tale, a savage child lives in a ruined chapel deep in the woods. The boy’s narrative blurs the line between fiction and reality as the savage begins to appear in the world around him. The book explores themes of loss, imagination, and the strange bonds that form when a child wrestles with the absence of a parent.
First publish date: 2008
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Fantasy
Authors: David Almond
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