Creature of the Night - Kate Thompson

Nominated for a Carnegie Medal, shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize and marketed as a novel 'written by the winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize', I was in danger of writing this off as a very 'worthy' book. However, as soon as I began reading I was drawn in to a compelling story that had me rooting for a most unlikely hero and I read the whole slim volume (less than three hundred pages) in a mere three hours. The opening chapter immediately sets up an intriguing situation. Bobby's mother is moving her small family out of Dublin and into the country, possibly to rescue her son from the friends she ...  Read the complete review