Heaven Eyes, David Almond
Heaven Eyes, David Almond
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Heaven Eyes

Author: David Almond

Narrator: Imogen Stubbs

Unabridged: 3 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/02/2013


Synopsis

Erin, January and Mouse live in a children's home, Whitegates. They often dream of escape, and frequently journey into the outside world. Running away is something they know all about. But this time January builds a raft, and the three of them head precariously down river. Towards the Black Middens. This time they might never come back. When they stumble across a disused factory and its strange inhabitants - Grampa and Heaven Eyes - they wonder if they'll even have the choice. Heaven Eyes is the girl who should have drowned at sea. The mysterious girl desperately searching for her family, hoping that these three might be the family she has lost. She has a secret history only Grampa knows. And does he trust these three invaders enough to tell them? Erin feels a sisterly responsibility for Heaven Eyes, Mouse longs to belong anywhere and anyhow, but January thinks Grampa's a murderer. Whatever happens, all three have a part to play. . .

A stunning novel from the author of the modern children's classic Skellig - winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award.

(P) Hodder Children's Books 2000

About David Almond

David Almond is the author of Skellig, My Name is Mina, Island, Bone Music and many other novels, stories, picture books, opera librettos, songs and plays. His work is translated into 40 languages, and is widely adapted for stage and screen. His major awards include the Carnegie Medal, two Whitbread Awards, the Eleanor Farjeon Award, the Michael L Printz Award (USA), Le Prix Sorcières (France), the Nonino International Prize, the James Kruss Prize and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. He has also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the world's most prestigious prize for children's authors. In 2021, David was awarded an OBE for services to literature.David speaks at festivals and conferences around the world. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. He is widely regarded as one of the most exciting, inspirational and innovative children's authors writing today. He has one amazing daughter. He lives in Newcastle, the city in which he was born.www.davidalmond.com


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mikayla on June 09, 2018

I remember reading this when I was 11 years old when I was in Primary school. I loved this book the first time I read it, and although I read my childhood books a little differently to how I used to, I still loved this book. It's still as good as I remember it. This is a great book and can recommend......more

Goodreads review by emulienka on April 13, 2024

Kniha Nebeské oči ma chytila za srdce. Po prečítaní niekoľkých stránok som vedela, že táto kniha je moja šálka kávy. Asi jediné, čo by som mohla knihe vytknúť je časté opakovanie frázy: „Ty kokos.”😅......more

Goodreads review by Emma on July 31, 2012

'Heaven Eyes' tells the story of a young orphan, Erin, who runs away from Whitegates with her friend January Carr, and their uninvited guest, Mouse. Their journey begins on a makeshift raft along a river. Going with the ebbs and flows of the current they are soon marooned on the dark mud bank of the......more

Goodreads review by ėglis on May 21, 2018

The book is so beautifully written it's almost magical, and yet I found the story it tries to tell disturbingly boring and pointless. I probably fail to understand this book as a whole. How can it start so powerfully, with such a magnificent prose it reads almost as poetry, and yet I read it while vi......more

Goodreads review by Linda on September 01, 2009

Continuing my quest to read all of Almond's books in 2009, I found this book more mythological than his previous. As usual, Almond writes of children who search to belong and to make sense of the adult world around them. Again, the pattern in Almond's work is the main character who binds the wounds a......more


Quotes

Strange and beautiful. The Mail on Sunday

A beautiful and eerie tale. The Guardian

Another astonishingly original novel. The Observer

A remarkable novel about love and the heroic refusal to give in to sadness. The Scotsman

Another beautiful book by David Almond for teenagers with yearning hearts. Surprsing, perfect and mysterious all at once. The Times

Almond at his thought-provoking best Time Out