![]() Books start to whisper to him and he receives episodic visitations from the Crooked Man, a strange and frightening figure.Ībout six months after his mother’s death, David’s father introduces him to Rose. After his mother’s death, these ancient stories begin to intrude upon David’s reality. They are stories that come “alive” in the telling and they have the power to take root in and transform the reader, and the power to create their own reality. He could not bear to think of a life without her.”ĭavid’s mother has shared her love of fairy tales with him, and she has taught him that these old stories are important. ![]() He had no brothers and no sisters, and while he loved his father it would be true to say that he loved his mother more. The disease that was killing her was a creeping, cowardly thing, a sickness that ate away at her from the inside, slowly consuming the light within so that her eyes grew a little less bright with each passing day, and her skin a little more pale.Īnd as she was stolen away from him, piece by piece, the boy became more and more afraid of finally losing her entirely. He had, in truth, been losing her for a very long time. ![]() “Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother. ![]()
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