Toby Alone

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An awards-laden adventure of heroism, friendship and survival with a powerful ecological message set in a captivating miniature world.

Toby Lolness is just one and a half millimetres tall, and hes the most wanted person in his world, the Great Oak Tree. When Tobys father makes a ground-breaking discovery, tapping into the very heart of the Trees energy, he also realizes that exploiting it could permanently damage their world. Refusing to reveal the secret of his invention to an enraged community, the family is exiled. But one man is determined to get hold of the forbidden knowledge ... and his plan is to destroy the Tree. Now Toby's parents have been imprisoned and sentenced to death. Only Toby has managed to escape, but for how long

Author Bio

Timothe de Fombelle is a much-admired French playwright. Initially working as a teacher/lecturer, he soon turned to writing and in 2006 produced his first novel, Toby Alone, known in his native France as Tobie Lolness. Highly acclaimed, it has been translated into 22 different languages and has won numerous prizes. Tobys extraordinary story continues in Toby and the Secrets of the Tree, to be published in 2009.