About the Book
Widowed sci-fi writer, Simon Carswell, burdened by guilt from the past, can't understand why his brilliant A A widowed sci-fi writer can't understand why his young granddaughter has taken against him after her mother goes off with her latest lover. Accused of a neighbour's murder, he goes on the run, as does the girl after killing, in self defence, her mother's paedophile boyfriend. Will they meet up... and can the authorities be persuaded of the the truth?
About the Author :
Oliver Eade, born a Londoner, and now an adopted Scot, retired from a career in hospital medicine and took to writing, initially adult short stories. Over fifty have been published, several winning prizes, and some appear in a collection, Walls of Words. Short stories for young readers, illustrated by Oliver's Swiss granddaughter, Olivia, have been published in Stories for Children, Ages 7 to 77.His first young readers' novel, Moon Rabbit, a magical journey to Mythological China (Oliver's wife is Chinese), was published in 2009. It was a winner of the Writers' and Artists' 2007 New Novel Competition and longlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, 2008. The sequel, Monkey King's Revenge, came out in 2011 and was a children's genre finalist for the 2012 People's Book Prize. Northwards, a young readers' dark fantasy based in Texas and the Arctic, was published in 2010. The Rainbow Animal, a fun spoof on war, is also set in North America where Oliver's two eldest granddaughters live. The Zookeeper's Daughter, 2020, dedicated to Sir David Attenborough, concerns a brave little girl who is determined to save animals from extinction, because of what we are doing to our planet, after experiencing the lives of several endangered species.Oliver's debut adult novel, A Single Petal, which won the Local Legend 2012 Spiritual Writing Competition, is a thriller/spiritual journey set in Tang Dynasty China. Voices, an adult novel of family love, intrigue and deceit, is set in London whilst the Parth Path is set in a post-apocalyptic Scotland run by women for women. The Fire Hills is a time travel romance-come-thriller set in the Scottish Borders, linking life for local Celtic tribes under Roman rule two thousand years ago with that of Borderers in a near-future Scotland denied independence from a far-right Westminster government. The Terminus, Oliver's debut young adult novel, returns to the city in which he was brought up. A city now changed beyond recognition from the drab post-World War II era and which, in a post-apocalyptic world, gives humankind a second chance. The From Beast to God trilogy, The Golden Jaguar of the Sun, The Merging and Revelation, revised and re-written as 'Eyes of Fire', follows a Texan boy and Mexican girl on a life-journey involving drug gangsters, ancient Aztec, Mayan and Native Mythology, merging European and Native American spiritual beliefs. The Kelpie's Eyes, was inspired by a visit to the famous Scottish waterfall, the Grey Mare's Tale, and weaves Scottish mythology into a tale of sisterly love. It won the 2018 Georgina Hawtrey-Woore Young Adult Novel Award. Number Twenty-four, takes a Scottish Borders teenager and his pretty Chinese classmate on a perilous journey to a land where the roles of humans and dogs are reversed. In his fiction-fact story of the history of medicine over seven thousand years, In the Blink of an Eye, a 2021 Page Turner Book Award finalist, the author revisits his life as a doctor with the story of advances in medicine over seven thousand years.Oliver has also written several plays, one of which, The Gap, inspired by being caught up in the Great Sichuan Earthquake of 2008 and shortlisted for the Rowan Tree One Act Play Competition, went on tour in Scotland in 2012. Another, The Other Cat, a darkly humorous take on Schrödinger's famous feline, won the 2018 Segora International One Act Play Competition and toured the Scottish Borders with two more of his plays in 2019.Although not confined to any particular genre, Oliver feels most comfortable in that magical space between reality and fantasy; the space into and out of which children slip so easily in their play; the place of dreams and myths and legends and deeply ingrained in many cultures across the globe.
