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The Tall Man

Mary Cathleen Brown author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Everything with Words

Published:6th Jun '24

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The Tall Man cover

Key publication fo the year. Strong interest from national papers.

A magical and powerful time-slip adventure with a touch of horror. Meet the Tall Man, a beguiling and melancholy villain who will stop at nothing to enforce his will. Can Tom and Captain Rat save the boy in the cellar?The village is alive with rumours about the Tall Man and Tom lives in his house. Tom hears a boy in the cellar offering a 'special' acorn to a rat, Captain Rat, whom he begs to find the key to his leg-iron. The cellar is empty but Tom knows that the boy is real and he's convinced that he is trapped in a brutal past and the Tall's Man's prisoner. Each time Tom tries to help the boy, the Tall Man's ghostly presence intensifies. Who is the boy in the cellar and can they escape Tall Man?

'A chilling, thrilling time-travel mystery. The Tall Man casts a long, dark shadow in this gripping tale.' Phil Hicks, author of The Haunting of Aveline Jones

'A creepy time-slip adventure to keep children on the edge of their seats. Enthralling.' The Telegraph

'Highly inventive, beautifully written' Observer

'Terrifying, but for the right reader, it will open universes' Irish Independent

ISBN: 9781911427391

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 18mm

Weight: unknown

324 pages