Thirteen year old Claire Swift is intrigued by Aidan, an Irish boy who is new to her school. He has a secret which he eventually shares with her - at night, he cycles into another world, one which lies unsuspected on the fringe of their own. The Nightland. The Nightland is a beguiling, magical place but for those who linger in it too long, it holds deadly danger. One night, Aidan fails to return from the Nightland. Now Claire, like Orpheus descending to the underworld to regain Eurydice, must try to get him back.

 

There are 144 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Andersen Press Ltd .

Robert Dodds grew up in Yorkshire and Kent. He is a senior lecturer at the Edinburgh College of Art. He studied English at Oxford, and has taught in Mexico. His short stories have been anthologised, and read on BBC Radio 4, and he has abridged texts for radio and written short films for BBC 2, as well as working in stage production. He has two daughters.