![]() ![]() ![]() Poking around one day in the garage at the back of the house, he finds, amid the clutter of tea chests and rotting rolls of carpet, a skinny, pale, black-suited creature, "covered in dust and webs. His family have moved into a filthy, falling-down house on the far side of town, and his parents are distracted by his newborn sister, who is troublingly ill. It tells the story of Michael, a 10-year-old boy whose easy life has been turned on its head. "I found him in the garage on a Sunday afternoon," begins the novel, which would go on to win the Whitbread children's book award, the Carnegie medal and the sort of awed encomiums normally reserved for literary greats. I dropped the manuscript in the postbox, turned away, and bang! Skellig was there." ![]() "I wasn't thinking of anything I was planning to take a few days off. D avid Almond had just posted a collection of stories to his publisher when the opening sentence of Skellig popped into his head. ![]()
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