Book description
'I adore stories in which people have weird dreams, and strange
things happen. But that's in books. Real life is supposed to be real,
and I like my world to be solid around me . . . '
Mel is the class bookworm. She prefers books to people and doesn't
want - or need - friends. She certainly doesn't want to be first-week
minder for new girl, Imogen. And Imogen is odd. Slowly, Mel discovers
that Imogen has a special talent - a family 'gift' that Mel thinks is
more like a curse. And that's when she realizes that stories can
happen in real life, too. For only she can stop Imogen's private
horror story - stop the bad dreams . . .
Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the children's
book world since her first book was published in the mid l970s, and
has now written more than forty books and won virtually every major
award going, including the Carnegie Medal (more than once), the
Whitbread Children's Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the
Smarties Prize and others. The Children's Laureate from 2001-2003,
Anne is also very funny and young readers love her lack of hypocrisy
about the family and her honesty about how people can behave. She
lives in the North-East.
'One of the sharpest and most humorous observers of the human
condition writing today for the young' School Librarian
'She is translated into 26 languages and has regularly won every
major children's literary award in the land, including the Carnegie
Medal twice and the Whitbread Children's Novel award twice . . . There
are few more influential, or more unfailingly intelligent, authors at
work' Scotsman
'A subversively wicked gift for exploring family tensions' Independent
