Sensitive Billy can't handle witnessing his mother's abusive relationship with her boyfriend, with whom they live. Thirteen-year-old Billy finds an unexpected refuge in this British import. The Hideaway is a compelling, exciting and emotional story that will stay with you long after you finish the last page. Covering themes of family, childhood, separation and reunion, domestic violence and doing the right thing, this is an important and beautiful book for middle grade readers right up to adults.īilly's story is illustrated throughout with tonal and textured black and white drawings, until the event on All Souls' Eve, when the text gives way to a series of double page images of the supernatural happening. The other tells of his mother's situation at home and the police search for Billy. One thread tells of Billy's experience of hiding away in the graveyard, his mixed-up feelings and emotions, and the supernatural events he eventually witnesses. The book is written in two alternating narratives, both different aspects of the same story. While hiding there he meets an elderly man who is tending the graves in preparation for a day in November when something magical is set to happen. The Hideaway tells the story of a boy, Billy McKenna, who runs away from a difficult situation at home and takes refuge in an overgrown graveyard. The wonderful long-awaited second novel from Pam Smy, celebrated author and illustrator of Thornhill. Smy takes children's books to another level. Smy is the genius writer and illustrator of the stunning Thornhill.
' The Hideaway by Pam Smy is a work of art. A compelling, exciting and emotional story that will stay with you long after you finish the last page. Billy's story is illustrated throughout with tonal and textured black and white drawings, until the event on All Souls' Eve, when the text gives way to a series of double page images of the supernatural happening. Covering themes of family, childhood, separation and reunion, domestic violence and doing the right thing, this is an important and beautiful book for middle grade readers right up to adults.
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