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The Boy Who Could See Death

โœ Scribed by Vickers, Salley

Book ID
109899735
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Weight
371 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780241972281

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โœฆ Synopsis

From the bestselling author of Miss Garnet's Angel comes an enchanting and unsettling collection of short stories.

****Eli is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary gift. It will shape the course of his whole life but, he learns the hard way, he must keep it hidden from those who know him best. Seeing death is a mixed blessing.

Eli is not the only one defying the world's expectations of him. Cousin Francesca, a charming spinster and a favourite with the children, is harbouring kleptomaniac tendencies. Sarah Palliser, living alone next to a ramshackle graveyard, is more scared of the small box under her stairs than the ghosts outside her window. Meanwhile dreamy artist Nan is nursing a growing obsession with wolves in Britain and the recently widowed Frances finds herself inventing an exotic imaginary boyfriend to pass the time.

Push through an unassuming front door on an unremarkable street or peer into the...

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