Daniel is raised as an invalid in isolation by his mother until the day she is removed to an asylum and Daniel is taken to live with the doctor's family. Soon Daniel begins to uncover secrets about his mother's dark family history, and a sinister doll seems to be at the centre of the mystery. First person recount. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.
About the Author
Anne Fine has been an acknowledged top author in the children s book world since her first book was published in the mid l970s, and has now written more than forty books and won virtually every major award going, including the Carnegie Medal (more than once), the Whitbread Children s Award, the Guardian Children s Fiction Award, the Smarties Prize and others. The Children s Laureate from 2001-2003, Anne is also very funny and young readers love her lack of hypocrisy about the family and her honesty about how people can behave. She lives in the North-East.
One of the sharpest and most humorous observers of the human condition writing today for the young School Librarian
She is translated into 26 languages and has regularly won every major children s literary award in the land, including the Carnegie Medal twice and the Whitbread Children s Novel award twice . . . There are few more influential, or more unfailingly intelligent, authors at work Scotsman
A subversively wicked gift for exploring family tensions Independent
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