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David Almond is twice winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award. His first novel, SKELLIG, won the Whitbread Children's Award and the Carnegie Medal. His second, KIT'S WILDERNESS, won the Smarties Award Silver Medal, was Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal, and shortlisted for the Guardian Award. THE FIRE-EATERS won the Whitbread, the Smarties Gold Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, and his most recent novel, CLAY, was shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal. David is widely regarded as one of the most exciting and innovative children's authors writing today, and his books are bestsellers all over the world. He lives with his family in Northumberland.Surprising, perfect and mysterious all at once ... -- The Times With his magic realism style, he is becoming the Gabriel Garcia Marquez of children's fiction. -- Janni Howker, Times Educational Supplement David Almond understands the joy and fear of being alive better than most - Heaven Eyes is a mysterious gift of a novel. -- The Times Both original and unnerving, this really is a fantastic book. -- The Bookseller Almond's eerie tale is an astonishing piece of writing about the way that the living and the dead find comfort in each other ... A very grown-up, totally compelling book, that, like Almond's brilliant Skellig, is about the lost and found, abandonment and redemption, love and faith - particularly faith in yourself and others. -- Guardian Beautifully written, intensely imagined, dark, ferocious yet suffused with hope, the book is a breathtaking experience. -- Carousel