Like when I read Waiting In The Sky, by Keith Pearson (which I ultimately really liked) it took me a while to warm to this book, but like the characters, I as a reader went on a journey with the story, and at the end I thought it was a great book.
Adam was a normal enough child, until he read a strange old book one night and had terrible nightmares. Somehow after that he didn’t seem quite the same boy as he was before.
We meet him as an adult who makes poor choices and therefore his relationship breaks up and his life is pretty bad, until he meets Mungo Thunk.
Mungo Thunk moves in as Adam’s lodger and offers his services as a personal therapist. That’s when the characters’ redemption journeys begin and what a journey they go on – there is pain and self sacrifice and learning and some nice comeuppance for the bad guy. As I said, by the end of the book the writer had won me over and I will probably read more of his books.
Sarah Wray Writer 