Daylight Saving

✍ Scribed by Hogan, Edward

• Book ID: 107253633
• Publisher: Candlewick
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 257 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780763659134

✦ Synopsis

Daniel’s expectations for his forced vacation with his father at the Leisure World Holiday Complex are low. He hates sports, and his father is mostly lost in drink and depression. But then he sees a strange girl swimming in the fake lake, and everything changes. Lexi has a smart mouth and a killer swim stroke, but dark secrets swirl around her. She’s got bruises and cuts that seem to be getting worse instead of better. She’s always alone. And her watch is ticking backwards. When a dark figure begins to stalk Lexi and Daniel, the truth must come out. This gripping ghost story will raise goose bumps and questions: does a traumatic past mean the future is a foregone conclusion?

Review

"There's a subtle magic to Hogan's prose." (Independent on Sunday) "Ed's voice is utterly distinctive: strong, emotive, haunting. His powers of observation seem almost supernatural." (Hilary Mantel)"

About the Author

Edward Hogan was born in Derby in 1980 and now lives in Brighton. He is a gradulate of the MA Creative Writing course at UEA. His first novel, Blackmoor, won the Desmond Elliot Prize and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. Daylight Saving is his first book for teenagers.