Description
A ghost story with a twist, from Matt Haig, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library. Matt Haig has an empathy for the human condition, the light and the dark of it, and he uses the full palette to build his excellent stories. --Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband's brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip's life crumble away when his father's ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him. Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistry cupboard, Philip vows to carry out the ghost's relentless demands for revenge. But can the words of a ghost be trusted any more than the lies of the living?
Author: Matt Haig
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 01/01/2008
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780143112945
ISBN10: 0143112945
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Ghost
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Humorous | General
Author: Matt Haig
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 01/01/2008
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780143112945
ISBN10: 0143112945
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Ghost
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Humorous | General
About the Author
Matt Haig is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library and the internationally bestselling memoir Reasons to Stay Alive and the follow-up Notes on a Nervous Planet, along with six novels, including How to Stop Time, and several award-winning children's books. His work has been translated into more than forty languages.