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Christopher Edge is an award-winning children's author whose books have been translated into more than twenty languages. His novel The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day won the STEAM Children's Book Prize and his last four novels were all nominated for the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal. Before becoming a writer, he worked as an English teacher, editor and publisher - any job that let him keep a book close to hand - and he now lives in Gloucestershire with his wife and family, close to his local library.
Find out more about Christopher at christopheredge.co.uk and find him on Twitter @edgechristopher
"A big book with a big brain, big laughs and a big, big heart" - Frank Cottrell Boyce; "Hilarious and full of heart" - Piers Torday; "Proves the theory that novels about science can be enormous fun" - The Times
An extraordinary novel for anyone who's ever been curious from award-winning author Christopher Edge.
"A writer of genuine originality" - Guardian
"Proves the theory that novels about science can be enormous fun. Give the man his own element on the periodic table of children's authors" - The Times, Children's Book of the Week
When Albie's mum dies, it's natural he should wonder where she's gone. His parents are both scientists and they usually have all the answers. Dad mutters something about Albie's mum being alive and with them in a parallel universe.
So Albie finds a box, his mum's computer and a rotting banana, and sends himself through time and space to find her...
"A book with a big brain, big laughs and a big, big heart." - Frank Cottrell-Boyce
"I have one complaint about this book. I wanted it to be longer" - Samira Ahmed
Check out these other brilliant books from Christopher Edge:
- Black Hole Cinema Club
- Escape Room
- Twelve Minutes to Midnight
- The Jamie Drake Equation
Product details
Biographical note
Christopher Edge is an award-winning children's author whose books have been translated into more than twenty languages. His novel The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day won the STEAM Children's Book Prize and his last four novels were all nominated for the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal. Before becoming a writer, he worked as an English teacher, editor and publisher - any job that let him keep a book close to hand - and he now lives in Gloucestershire with his wife and family, close to his local library.
Find out more about Christopher at christopheredge.co.uk and find him on Twitter @edgechristopher