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10 year old Goose wakes up one Christmas Eve to the sound of a puppy barking. He runs downstairs to find his parents unsuccessfully trying to hide a mongrel puppy. Goose is full of plans to play with him, but then his firefighter dad receives a call and has to go to work. Disappointed, Goose hides his car keys. Of course, that doesn't stop his father from going to work; instead his mum gives him a lift in her car. Goose's spur-of-the-moment act means that he loses both parents in a car crash.
A year later he is living with his grandmother, who is in the early stages of dementia. He still has Mutt, his dog, but he has lost everything else, including his ability to feel. He is also involved in crime, stealing and handing over the objects to his dad's former best friend, Frank, whose wife left him when Frank's grief led him to drink heavily.
Then after a heavy night in a pub, Frank meets a strange man, Anthony. Anthony seems to have lost his memory. However, he seems to have a strange power, to "read" people and know their secret- and not so secret- losses. As Goose and Frank become more involved with Anthony, he helps them to make amends and return lost things to their owners.
This book deserves to become a Christmas classic. I think it is probably aimed at 10+, but I think it could be a fantastic book for a family to enjoy together, with an adult reading it to children 8+ and helping them understand allusions, to, for example, Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince.
I wish you all a Happy Christmas, and hope that you enjoy some wonderful Seasonal Reading too!
Thanks for submitting this to the carnival. I didn't see the TV show, and haven't read the book, but Eddie Izzard is a big draw so I'll certainly look out for it!
ReplyDeleteHe has written a foreword to it! I think you'll like it, Zoe.
ReplyDeleteThis looks interesting. Unusual too in that it is an TV to book adaptation rather than the other way around. Why is it that stories that are deeply depressing on one level (A Monster Calls, It's a Wonderful Life) are often the most inspiring?
ReplyDeletegan good job, this article is very interesting to note, cool deh,, of course we have new insights that we get after reading it, thanx yah :-)
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