Things quickly start to spoil as Sean reads a children’s book written by his grandfather: The Book of the Baku. Yet his grandfather’s home-carpeted, smelling of home-cooked lasagne and stocked with books and art supplies-promises safety and comfort, and a chance to recover from trauma in his past. Years earlier Sean’s mother died in circumstances we’re left to wonder about, and which left him unable to speak. He leaves behind a children’s home and the poor estate he grew up on to live in with his wealthy grandfather. Her debut novel mixes dark, social realism with YA horror, written in the great tradition of children going to live with estranged family and discovering something supernatural. She studied there (Classical Civilisation), sang, played football, and today still lives in Yorkshire where she enjoys genre fiction, 80s movies and countryside comforts.
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