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Chocky

John Wyndham author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:2nd Jul '09

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Chocky cover

Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things: he speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress. Then, when Matthew does something incredible, it seems there is more than the imaginary about Chocky. Which is when others become interested and ask questions of their own: who is Chocky? And what could it want with an eleven-year-old boy?

A story of innocence and alien contact, Chocky is a sinister tale of manipulation and experimentation from afar.

'Remains fresh and disturbing in an entirely unexpeceted way' Guardian

ISBN: 9780141042183

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 11mm

Weight: 119g

160 pages