Gravenhunger (16 page)
Authors: Richard; Harriet; Allen Goodwin
STRIPES PUBLISHING
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Text copyright © Harriet Goodwin, 2011
Cover copyright © Stripes Publishing Ltd, 2011
Original house image copyright © iStockphoto.com, 2011
Inside illustrations copyright © Richard Allen, 2011
First published as an ebook by Stripes Publishing in 2012.
eISBN: 978–1–84715–291–6
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For a millionth of a second the car grazed the drenched moorland. If it had come down on any other patch of ground Finn would simply have been another statistic. Death by dangerous driving. But the car hit the surface of the Earth at Exit 43.
…And at that moment, though no one yet knew it, the entire future of the Underworld changed course.
Finn Oliver knows he’ll never come to terms with his father’s death, but joy-riding over the moors in his mum’s beat-up old car is a quick f ix of freedom and forgetting.
Until the accident happens and Finn finds himself hurtling through the wafer-thin divide between the worlds of the living and the dead…
Shortlisted for the CBBC’s
Blue Peter Book Awards 2010
in the ‘Book I Couldn’t Put Down’ category
‘Told in pacy dialogue and sentence-long paragraphs, with lightness and feeling.’ Nicolette Jones,
The Sunday Times