Book description
Alone and exhausted after a rebel attack on his father's mission
settlement in remote China, thirteen-year-old Theodore is relieved to
meet the earthy and colourful Mrs Jones, a botanist, and they flee
together for the forbidden land of Tibet.
But are they really fleeing? Or being summoned? For the old Lama who
rules in the many-domed monastery of Dong Pe insists they hold the
clue to the birth of the long-awaited Tulku - a reincarnated spiritual master...
Peter Dickinson was born in Africa, but raised and educated in
England. From 1952 to 1969 he was on the editorial staff of
Punch, and since then has earned his living writing fiction of
various kinds for adults and children.
Amongst many other awards, Peter Dickinson has been nine times
short-listed for the prestigious Carnegie medal for children's
literature and was the first author to win it twice. His books for
children have also been published in many languages throughout the
world. His latest collection of short stories, Earth and Air,
was published by Small Beer Press.
Peter Dickinson was the first author to win the Crime-Writers Golden
Dagger for two books running: Skin Deep (1968), and A Pride
of Heroes (1969). He has written twenty-one crime and mystery
novels, which have been published in several languages.
He has been chairman of the Society of Authors and is a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Literature. He was awarded an OBE for services to
literature in 2009.
