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This tale is told by 1 that died at birth by 1 that came into the world in days of endles war & at the moment of disaster.

Billy Dean is a secret child, growing up in the dark heart of Blinkbonny. He has a beautiful young mother and a father who arrives at night carrying the scent of incense and cigarettes. His world is just a bed, some pictures of the holy island and a single locked door, but his father fills his dreams with mysterious tales and dreadful warnings.
When his father disappears, Billy's mum brings him out into the world, and he learns the dreadful truth of what happened in Blinkbonny on the day he was born. Gradually he finds he has the gift of helping to rebuild what has been broken. But there is one figure who is beyond healing, who comes looking for Billy himself and is determined on a kind of reckoning.
I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tale.


David Almond's extraordinary first novel for adults is the story of a child, born of sin, who emerges into a post-industrial, almost apocalyptic world where the force of his innocence is tested to the extreme.

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Truly original -- Philip Pullman Guardian A master storyteller Independent Almond's work, like the best of literature for children, is in fact simply literature The Times
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Skellig 'is gripping, beautiful and brilliantly written ... unforgettable' Sunday Times

'Almond's work, like the best literature for children, is in fact simply literature' The Times

Skellig is ' truly original, mysterious and affecting ... Almond treads with delicate certainty and the result is something genuine and true' Philip Pullman, Guardian

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  • PublisherViking
  • Publication date2011
  • ISBN 10 0670919055
  • ISBN 13 9780670919055
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