The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean - David Almond - Other - Brilliance Audio - 9781480583450 - January 7, 2014
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The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean

David Almond

The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean

He cud be just a thing that glares into your hart & prowls inside yor deepest dreems. . . . Turn away if you must. Billy Dean is a secret child. He has a beautiful young mother and a father who arrives at night carrying the scents of candles and incense and cigarettes. Birds fly to his window. Mice run out from his walls. His world is a carpet, a bed, pictures of the holy island, and a single locked door. His father fills his mind and his dreams with mysterious tales and memories and dreadful warnings. But then his father disappears, and Billys mother brings him out into the world at last. He learns the horrifying story of what was saved and what was destroyed on the day he was born, the day the bombers came to Blinkbonny. The kind butcher, Mr. McCaufrey, and the medium, Missus Malone, are waiting for him. He becomes the Angel Child, one who can heal the living, contact the dead, bring comfort to a troubled world. But there is one figure who is beyond healing, who comes looking for Billy himself — and is determined on a kind of reckoning. From master storyteller David Almond comes a gripping, brilliantly written novel about a hidden-away child who emerges into a broken world.

Media Other     N/A   (Unknown format)
Released January 7, 2014
ISBN13 9781480583450
Label Brilliance Audio
Dimensions 140 × 191 × 25 mm   ·   350 g   (Weight (estimated))
Language English  

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