The True Tale of the Monster Billy Dean

The True Tale of the Monster Billy DeanBy: David Almond From master storyteller David Almond comes a gripping, exquisitely written novel about a hidden away child who emerges into a broken world. Billy Dean is a secret child. He has a beautiful young mother and a father who arrives at night carrying the scents of candles and incense and cigarettes. Birds fly to his window. Mice run out from his walls. His world is a carpet, a bed, pictures of the holy island, and a single locked door. His

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