Book description
With her fifteenth birthday imminent, Tess is running out of time. She
must decide who, or what, she will become when she makes the final
Switch of her life. To make the impossible decision even worse, she
finds herself bundled off to relatives in the country, miles from home,
her parents and, most importantly, Kevin. What on earth will she do in
the wild woods? And what will the wild woods do to her?
Kate Thompson is one of the most exciting authors writing for young
people today for she is a born storyteller, highly original and
thought provoking in her ideas. She has travelled widely in the USA
and India and studied law in London. After living in County Clare, she
moved to Kinvara in County Galway and there, three years ago, she
discovered her passion for playing the fiddle. She is now an
accomplished player and also has a great interest in restoring
instruments.
Kate is the only author to win the Children's Books Ireland Bisto
Book of the Year award four times - in 2002 for The Beguilers, in 2003
for The Alchemist's Apprentice, in 2004 for Annan Water and in 2006
for The New Policeman.
The New Policeman also won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
2005, the Whitbread Book Award Children's category 2005, the
Children's Book of the Year in the Irish Book Awards in March 2006 and
has been longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
