Book description
Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious,
deceitful, and dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he
falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost
predestined.
Louis miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered.
Louis' father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and
Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge.
In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back
to consciousness. But the boy defies medical logic, startling
Dannachet out of his safe preconceptions, and drawing him inexorably
into the dark heart of Louis' buried world. Only Louis holds the key
to the mystery surrounding his fall - and he can't communicate. Or can
he?
Liz Jensen is the acclaimed author of
The Paper Eater
,
Egg Dancing
,
Ark Baby
(shortlisted for The
Guardian
Fiction Prize) and most recently
War Crimes for the Home
. She lives in London.
