Heaven Eyes

Strange and beautiful. * The Mail on Sunday * A beautiful and eerie tale. * The Guardian * Another astonishingly original novel. * The Observer * A remarkable novel about love and the heroic refusal to give in to sadness. * The Scotsman * Another beautiful book by David Almond for teenagers with yearning hearts. Surprsing, perfect and mysterious all at once. * The Times * Almond at his thought-provoking best * Time Out * Surprising, perfect and mysterious all at once . . . * The Times * With his magic realism style, he is becoming the Gabriel Garcia Marquez of children's fiction. * Janni Howker, Times Educational Supplement * David Almond understands the joy and fear of being alive better than most - Heaven Eyes is a mysterious gift of a novel. * The Times * Both original and unnerving, this really is a fantastic book. * The Bookseller * Almond's eerie tale is an astonishing piece of writing about the way that the living and the dead find comfort in each other . . . A very grown-up, totally compelling book, that, like Almond's brilliant Skellig, is about the lost and found, abandonment and redemption, love and faith - particularly faith in yourself and others. * Guardian * Beautifully written, intensely imagined, dark, ferocious yet suffused with hope, the book is a breathtaking experience. * Carousel *

David Almond is the author of Skellig, My Name is Mina, Counting Stars, The Savage, Island, A Song for Ella Grey, The Colour of the Sun and many other novels, stories, picture books, opera librettos, songs and plays. His work is translated into 40 languages, and is widely adapted for stage and screen. His major awards include the Carnegie Medal, two Whitbread Awards, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, the Michael L Printz Award (USA), Le Prix Sorcieres (France) and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. In 2010 he won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world's most prestigious prize for children's authors. David speaks at festivals and conferences around the world. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. He is widely regarded as one of the most exciting, inspirational and innovative children's authors writing today. He has one amazing daughter. He lives in Bath and in Newcastle, the city in which he was born. www.davidalmond.com