Book description
When Beth wakes up one morning covered in dirt, she puts it down to
an extreme case of sleep-walking. But when reports of a desecrated
grave start to circulate, her night-time wanderings take on a sinister air.
Soon the city is being plagued by strange sightings and sudden
disappearances.
Beth knows that something is changing within her. Something that's
filling her with an urgent, desperate hunger that demands to be
satisfied - at any cost ...
Melvin Burgess was born in 1954 and was brought up in Sussex and
Berkshire. He started writing in his twenties, and wrote on and off
for fifteen years before having his first book, THE CRY OF THE WOLF,
published in 1990. In 1997 his controversial bestseller JUNK won the
Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal. It
was also shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Children's Book of the
Year. Four of his novels have been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal:
THE CRY OF THE WOLF, AN ANGEL FOR MAY, THE BABY AND FLY PIE and THE
GHOST BEHIND THE WALL.
Melvin Burgess now writes full-time and lives in Hebden Bridge. The
Guardian has described him as the godfather of YA fiction.
