Taken Away
By (Author) Celine Kiernan
A&U Children's
A&U Children
1st October 2011
Australia
Young Adult
Fiction
823.00
Winner of Children's Books Ireland (CBI) 2012 (Ireland)
Paperback
264
Width 128mm, Height 198mm
245g
"I think the fire changed us - me and Dom. Though I didn't feel much different at first, I think something inside of us opened up, or woke up. I think, all at once, we began to understand how easily things are broken and taken and lost. It was like walking through a door: on one side was the warm, cosy sitting room of our childhood; on the other, a burnt-out shell of ash and char. I think that's how the goblin boy was able to see us. Though he'd been there for every summer of our childhood - mine and Dom's - we'd only been stupid boys until then. Stupid, happy, ignorant boys. And what in hell would he have had in common with two stupid boys But after the fire we were different. We were maybe a little bit like him. And so he saw us, at last, and he thought he'd found a home..."
Celine Kiernan is the author of the internationally acclaimed Moorehawke Trilogy.