The Daydreamer

Peter Fortune is a daydreamer. He's a quiet ten year old who can't help himself from dropping out of reality and into the amazing world of his vivid imagination. His daydreams are fantastic and fascinating - only in the bizarre and disturbing world of dreams can he swop bodies with the family cat and his baby cousin, Kenneth, or wipe out his entire family with vanishing cream.

"A brilliant book - wonderful" TES "A classic" Financial Times "Exhilarating - briliant" Independent "Clear and vivid prose ... Read these aloud to your children and be unsettled by them" -- Katie Law Evening Standard 20050214 "This is a book that could be read at several levels. The dreams can be taken at face-value, but they also reveal themes that more astute readers might recognise ... A good read" Writeaway! 20050330

Ian McEwan is a critically acclaimed author of short stories and novels for adults, as well as a selection of books for children. His first published work, a collection of short stories, 'First Love, Last Rites', won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, The Cement Garden, Enduring Love, Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize and his most recent novel, Atonement. He lives in Oxford.

By Booker Prize-Winner Ian McEwan 'Looking down through the fur, and parting it with the tips of his fingers, he saw that he had opened up a small slit in the cat's skin. It was as if he were holding the handle of a zip. Again he pulled, and now there was a dark opening two inches long. William Cat's purr was coming from in there. Perhaps, Peter thoughtm, I'll see his heart beating. A paw was gently pushing against his fingers again. William Cat wanted him to go on.' Step into the extraordinary world of ten-year-old Peter Fortune in Ian McEwan's first book for children. 'A brilliant book . . . wonderful' TES 'A classic' Financial Times 'Exhilarating . . . brilliant' The Independent

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