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The Hideaway

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by Smy, Pam

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  • Title The Hideaway
  • Author Smy, Pam
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pavilion Books Ltd
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR012258586
  • ISBN 9781843654797 / 1843654792
  • Weight 1.54 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.3 x 4.63 x 0.99 in (26.16 x 11.76 x 2.51 cm)
  • Ages 10 to 14 years
  • Grade levels 5 - 9
  • Themes
    • Topical: Friendship
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Ghost stories
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

The wonderful long-awaited second novel from Pam Smy, the celebrated author and illustrator of Thornhill.

Covering themes of families, childhood, domestic violence, being separated and reunited, this is an important and beautifully illustrated book for middle grade readers right up to adults.

'The Hideaway by Pam Smy is a work of art. Smy is the genius writer and illustrator of the stunning Thornhill. Smy takes children's books to another level. Highly recommend.'

- David Walliams

The wonderful long-awaited second novel from Pam Smy, celebrated author and illustrator of Thornhill.

The Hideaway tells the story of a boy, Billy McKenna, who runs away from a difficult situation at home and takes refuge in an overgrown graveyard. While hiding there he meets an elderly man who is tending the graves in preparation for a day in November when something magical is set to happen.

The book is written in two alternating narratives, both different aspects of the same story. One thread tells of Billy's experience of hiding away in the graveyard, his mixed-up feelings and emotions, and the supernatural events he eventually witnesses. The other tells of his mother's situation at home and the police search for Billy. Covering themes of family, childhood, separation and reunion, domestic violence and doing the right thing, this is an important and beautiful book for middle grade readers right up to adults.

Billy's story is illustrated throughout with tonal and textured black and white drawings, until the event on All Souls' Eve, when the text gives way to a series of double page images of the supernatural happening.

The Hideaway is a compelling, exciting and emotional story that will stay with you long after you finish the last page.

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Citations

  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 10/01/2021, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/15/2021, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 10/15/2021, Page 1

About the author

Pam Smy studied Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, where she now lectures part-time. Pam has illustrated books by Conan Doyle (The Hound of the Baskervilles), Julia Donaldson (Follow the Swallow) and Kathy Henderson (Hush, Baby, Hush!), among others. She lives in Cambridge. Her first novel, Thornhill, was a critical and commercial success, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the UKLA Book Awards, and the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2018 and winning the 2018 British Book Design & Production Award for Graphic Novels. Pam was the inaugural winner of the Invisible Prize for Illustrators in 2020.

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