Kit’s Wilderness
- Author David Almond
- Narrator David Almond
- Publisher Hachette Children's Group
- Run Time 3 hours and 8 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships.
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What to expect
Kit has just moved to Stoneygate with his family, to live with his ageing grandfather who is gradually succumbing to Alzheimer’s Disease. Stoneygate is an insular place, scarred by its mining history – by the danger and death it has brought them. Where the coal mine used to be there is now a wilderness.
Here Kit meets Askew, a surly and threatening figure who masterminds the game called Death, a frightening ritual of hypnotism; and Kit makes friends with Allie, the clever school troublemaker. As Kit struggles to adjust to his new life and the gradual failing of his beloved grandfather, these two friendships pull him towards a terrifying resolution. Haunted by ghosts of the past, Kit must confront death and – ultimately – life.
A stunning novel from the author of the modern children’s classic Skellig – winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children’s Book Award. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award.
(P) Hodder Children’s Books 2000
Critics Review
Magic of a very different kind
The TimesAn enthralling, multi-layered and complex story with a tension that builds and grips the reader. A wonder ful read.
The BooksellerA writer of subtle, page-turning and daring exactness.
The Times Educational SupplementExtremely good. Written with an acute sense of place plus a touch of the supernatural.
The IndependentSensitive and absorbing.
The ObserverHas the same mesmerising quality of writing and a hauntingly intense plot.
The Sunday Times
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