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The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
- Narrated by: David Almond
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean
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Publisher's Summary
He cud be just a thing that glares into your hart & prowls inside yor deepest dreems.... Turn away if you must.
Billy Dean is a secret child. He has a beautiful young mother and a father who arrives at night carrying the scents of candles and incense and cigarettes. Birds fly to his window. Mice run out from his walls. His world is a carpet, a bed, pictures of the holy island, and a single locked door. His father fills his mind and his dreams with mysterious tales and memories and dreadful warnings. But then his father disappears, and Billy’s mother brings him out into the world at last. He learns the horrifying story of what was saved and what was destroyed on the day he was born, the day the bombers came to Blinkbonny. The kind butcher, Mr. McCaufrey, and the medium, Missus Malone, are waiting for him. He becomes the Angel Child, one who can heal the living, contact the dead, bring comfort to a troubled world. But there is one figure who is beyond healing, who comes looking for Billy himself - and is determined on a kind of reckoning.
From master storyteller David Almond comes a gripping, brilliantly written novel about a hidden-away child who emerges into a broken world.