- Title:
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The Savage
- Written by:
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David Almond
- Read by:
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Malcolm Hamilton
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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49 minutes
- Published:
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January 01 2015
- Available Date:
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January 01 2015
- Age Category:
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Children (8+)
- ISBN:
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9781486244317
- Genres:
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Fiction; Children's Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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International bestselling author
Award winning author
Jointly commissioned by Seven Stories, this is multi award-winning Dave Almond’s second book for younger readers.
Blue’s father has died suddenly, and finding that the school’s counselling increases his anguish, instead he turns to writing a story.
Ostensibly about a ‘wild boy’ who looks for food – animal or human – to eat, as Almond’s story progresses it becomes increasingly the inner story of Blue himself, wreaking vengeance on the boy who bullies him and taunts him about his father’s death.
Almond’s revelations about child grief, as ever, are unsettling, as are McKean’s tortured illustrations, but as the book progresses we witness Blue achieving a degree of acceptance, and an unworldly resolution.
'There really is nobody quite like Almond writing in children's or adult's fiction today.'
The Times