When he was young, he found his love of writing when some short stories of his were published in a local magazine. He was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia. In this stunningly designed book, David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skellig, in what is a thought-provoking and extraordinary prequel to his best-selling debut novel, Skellig.įrom the winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award the Carnegie Medal and the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen Award comes the extraordinary prequel to the award-winning Skellig.ĭavid Almond is a British children's writer who has penned several novels, each one to critical acclaim. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line?Īnd so Mina writes and writes in her journal, and through her stories and poems there grows an opus of her life - her lessons, her loves, her beliefs, her mum, her dad, her thoughts and her dreams. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life does. Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I open the book and write the very first words: My name is Mina and I love the night. I keep on saying that I'll write a journal. There's an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight.

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