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Paperback256 pages
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www.harrietgoodwinbooks.comPublisher
Stripes Publishing, an imprint of Magi Publications an imprint of Magi PublicationsSuitable for Ages
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1st December 2009ISBN
9781847150905Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43
Harriet Goodwin
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Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' Award.
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.
Synopsis
The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 by Harriet GoodwinFor 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.
About The Author
Harriet Goodwin read medieval English at Oxford University before training as a professional singer. She sang and toured with a number of acclaimed ensembles, and after the birth of her fourth child she had a vivid dream about a boy who fell through the surface of the Earth into the Underworld – thus the novel was born. Harriet lives in
Staffordshire with her family.
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