Thursday, 17 April 2025

New Book - The Things You Find In Rockpools by Gregg Dunnett (Pages 1 - 16)


 First Published: 2018

Billy is the narrator of this novel. Billy is eleven, but as he admits himself, he is not the usual eleven-year-old. The way he sounds I can guess that he is on the Autist spectrum. Billy lives with his father, who manages some holiday cottages on their island, but his passion is surfing. Billy's passion is science. 


The morning the novel starts Billy spies a dead body washed up to the shore, but he won't tell his father. From Billy we learn that a teenager has recently gone missing. Her name is Olivia Curran, and she came to the island with her family and stayed in one of the cottages that his father runs. So as he mentions this, we think that the body must be of the girl. Yet, when Billy goes to the spot where the body is while his father is surfing, we discover it is a whale.

I am already hooked on this novel as Billy has such an original voice that captivates you. 

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