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When I'm older, she thought, I'll remember this midnight picnic as a good thing. I'll forget that I was scared of the dark, and that Dad was strange. I'll remember the candles in the grass, like flowers made out of flame, and Tug dreaming of pie, and Dad telling me he loves me.
Eleven-year-old Martha is used to being the one who has to keep their
head. Tug, her little brother, is too small. Dad is too strange. And
Mum's not here any more. So when Dad falls off the roof, it's Martha who
ices his knee and takes him to the doctor. And when Dad doesn't come
home, it's Martha who cooks Tug's favourite pie and reads him his
bedtime story. And when Dad passes out, it's Martha
who cleans him up and keeps his secret. But eventually Dad's problems
become too big for even Martha to solve. There is only one person who
can sort things out now. Dad.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780385618519 |
| Publication date: |
7th April 2011 |
| Author: |
Simon Mason |
| Publisher: |
David Fickling Books an imprint of Random House Children's Books |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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About Simon Mason
Simon has always been fascinated by crime novels and grew up reading the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie.
To this day, he continues to be mesmerised by their most famous detectives: Sherlock Holmes, Philip Marlowe and Hercule Poirot. These are the characters who inspired Simon to write his first crime novel, Running Girl, introducing Garvie Smith, a young man with a brilliant brain and an obvious reluctance to use it responsibly. Maths was a subject Simon struggled with at school – so he made Garvie a maths genius.
He also asked himself: what makes a really good crime novel, what keeps readers hooked until the very end? And he answered: 1) a totally gripping story full of mystery, danger and foul deeds, 2) a charismatic detective, and 3) a vivid sense of place. This is what he always aims for in his own writing.
Simon lives in Oxford, the city of another very famous detective, Inspector Morse, and he is currently writing another Garvie Smith Mystery.
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