A vigilante ghost stalks the East End of London. Before the lightning he was just a boy, now he's ready for revenge.
A vigilante ghost stalks the East End of London. Before the lightning he was just a boy, now he's ready for revenge.
Horror, Paranormal, occult & supernatural, Young adult fiction (general)
A vigilante ghost stalks the East End of London...
Before the lightning, he was just a boy, now he’s ready for revenge.
The Book of Thunder and Lightning is a Gothic mashup of Oliver Twist and Top Boy, a love letter to London, wrapped up in a mind-bending ghost story.
In 1888, unlucky Tom Baxter is thrown into a world of toxic masculinity, where his only weapon is his imagination. But at least he’s got his crew, a gang of misfits just like him, to back him up.
As lightning stretches across time and space to a gritty 21st-century London, history is repeating itself. Tom has the chance to save his modern-day twin, with help from a reluctant hero, a posh girl from Chelsea, and a donkey called Dorris. His luck has to change sometime, right?
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Seb Duncan captures the thrill of the bright lights of Piccadilly Circus and the awe that part of London has sparked for generations of visitors. ~ Midge Gillies, author of Piccadilly: The Circus at the Heart of London, The Barbed-Wire University and Amy Johnson: Queen of the Air
Seb Duncan’s writing is fluid, vividly descriptive and is perfect for a young adult reader. We see London from the witty Victorian eyes of Tom, a ghost from 1888, who finds himself in an unlikely pairing - a hack journalist and English tutor called Simon. ~ Isabel Judd and Louis Chapman editorial team at GoldDust
... you’ve made the slow surfacing of china-pale bodies in Dorito-coloured dirt genuinely, atmospherically spooky. More! More! ~ Francis Spufford, author of Light Perpetual, Cahokia Jazz and Golden Hill
