In this stunning book, David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skellig, in what is a thought provoking and extraordinary prequel to his best selling debut novel, Skellig winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children’s Book Award. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? And so Mina writes and writes in her notebook, and here is her journal, Mina’s life in Mina’s own words: her stories and dreams, experiences and thoughts, her scribblings and nonsense, poems and songs. I’ll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life does. Then what shall I write? I can’t just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I open the book and write the very first words: My Name is Mina and I love the night. I keep on saying that I’ll write a journal. There’s an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight.
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