Harriet Goodwin

Finn Oliver is bereft with grief over the sudden loss of his dad. The last time they were together, his dad was teaching him how to drive. Finn Oliver knows he'll never come to terms with his father's death, but joy-riding over the moors in his mum's beat-up old car is a quick fix of freedom and forgetting. If it had come down on any other patch of ground Finn would simply have been another statistic. Death by dangerous driving. But the car hit the surface of the Earth at Exit 43. It slid through the membrane like a hot knife through butter, plunging into the darkness and catapulting Finn from its shattered windscreen as it fell. Finn finds himself hurtling through the wafer-thin divide between the worlds of the living and the dead.The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 is a quirky debut novel laced with a dollop of magic. The storyline tended to drag on at various stages.… (más)