[Once #3] Now

✍ Scribed by Gleitzman, Morris

• Book ID: 109018457
• Publisher: e-penguin
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 58 KB
• Series: Once 3
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781742530550

✦ Synopsis

Set in the current day, this is the final book in the series that began with Once, continued with Then and is... Now. Felix is a grandfather. He has achieved much in his life and is widely admired. He has mostly buried the painful memories of his childhood, but they resurface when his granddaughter Zelda comes to stay with him. Together they face a cataclysmic event armed only with their with gusto and love an event that helps them achieve salvation from the past, but also brings the possibility of destruction. Longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction prize 2010.

Review

One of the reasons this humane and carefully crafted book is so readable is that the author celebrates ordinariness and childishness even as he chronicles terrible cruelty. But prepare for shock and tears -- Nicolette Jones (on Then, Children's Book of the Week) Sunday Times Haunting ... dangerous and desperate, but also full of courage and hope Guardian on Once

About the Author

Morris Gleitzman was born in Lincolnshire and moved to Australia in his teens. He worked as a paperboy, a shelf-stacker, a frozen chicken de-froster, an assistant to a fashion designer and more, before taking a degree in Professional Writing at Canberra College and becoming a writer. He has written for TV, stage, newspapers and magazines but is best known for his hugely successful children's books including Two Weeks with the Queen, Bumface, Once and Then.�