Thursday, September 17, 2009

The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43

Why does the UK get all the coolest stuff first?? Check out the latest:
The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43
By, Harriet Goodman.
The 411 from Amazon:
"For a millionth of a second the car grazed the drenched moorland. If it had come down on any other patch of ground Finn would simply have been another statistic. Death by dangerous driving. But the car hit the surface of the Earth at Exit 43. It slid through the membrane like a hot knife through butter, plunging into the darkness and catapulting Finn from its shattered windscreen as it fell. Finn Oliver knows he'll never come to terms with his father's death, but joy-riding over the moors in his mum's beat-up old car is a quick fix of freedom and forgetting. Until the accident happens - and Finn finds himself hurtling through the wafer-thin divide between the worlds of the living and the dead. Adventurous, charming and poignant by turns, "The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43" is a quirky debut novel laced with humour and a dollop of magic."

Harriet and I are agent-siblings. That means we have the same awesome agent, Sarah Davies. I wish Harriet all the best with her debut novel.

3 comments:

  1. I started reading this 4 a school book club and I cant get into it you have to like this sort of book so at the beginning a boy crashes and falls down a whole to the underworld full of ghosts and spirits! It is a great read you just have to like that genre so happy reading! BTW I still cant get into it

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  2. Sorry it wasn't your cup of tea, and thanks for leaving the comment.
    Cindy

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  3. Thanks for the recommendation. I just started it, and it's great. BP

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