SOMETHING IN THE BLACK PIT WAS CALLING AND REACHING OUT TO ME, PULLING ME... Tom stumbles into a pit in an excavated schoolyard and finds himself mysteriously transported back to rural Ireland in the grip of the potato famine of the 1840s. A foster child with no family in his 'real' life in 1970s Liverpool, in Ireland he finds himself taken in by a generous, though desperately poor, family whose eldest son is Tom's spitting image. Tom's intriguing life develops in parallel in both settings, creating an engrossing and affecting story for readers of 11+.
| ISBN: | 9780552561983 |
| Publication date: | 29th September 2009 |
| Author: | James Heneghan |
| Publisher: | Corgi Childrens an imprint of Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |