![]() ![]() He tells David the animal was a Loup, half-wolf, half-human the mother of the first Loup, Leroi, was Little Red Riding Hood. Luckily, the first living human he meets is the well-disposed Woodsman. One belongs to a German aviator, the other to an animal wearing clothes. When he hears his mother’s voice calling for help, he wriggles through a hole in the brickwork and finds himself in a forest. David’s bedroom is haunted by a notorious trickster, the Crooked Man, known for stealing children. When war breaks out (it’s 1939), they move to Rose’s house outside London. His father falls for Rose, the administrator of his mother’s hospice she bears him a son, Georgie. Twelve-year-old David is a Londoner who has inherited his mother’s love of myths and fairy tales when she dies of an unnamed disease, he takes her loss hard. ![]() The Irish thriller-writer ( The Black Angel, 2005, etc.) breaks new ground with this extravagant fantasy. A child’s nightmare odyssey through an alternate world inspired by the darkest aspects of fairy tales. ![]()
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