Blood Willow
No. of pages 192
Published: 2003
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There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published in 2003 by Hachette Children's Group .
Thomas Bloor is the author of seven children's novels, including The House of Eyes, winner of the 2003 Stockton Children's Book of the Year Award, and Worm in the Blood which won the Calderdale Children's Book Award 2006.
'subversive, funny and imaginative' (The Memory Prisoner) * The Observer *
'funny and tragic, but always gripping' (The Memory Prisoner) * The London Parents Guide *
'Bloor is to be congratulated on creating a genuine heroine, stout in courage, as well as size.' (The Memory Prisoner) * Nick Tucker, The Independent *
If Royston Vasey had had a public library it might have resembled the one in Thomas Bloor's The Memory Prisoner... Bloor never wastes a word communicating his nightmare, contriving all at once to be moving, alarming and funny. It takes a while to adjust to the extreme oddity of this short novel as there is nothing to compare it with. Sooner or later someone is going to mention Kafka, but I will eschew the K word except to remark that what most people forget about Kafka is his lethal matter-of-factness. * Jan Mark, TES *
'...a bizarrely comic account ...' (The Memory Prisoner) * The Guardian *
'a dark gothic fantasy, reminiscent of Mervyn Peake' (The Memory Prisoner) * The Herald *