The Boy Who Could See Death - Softcover

'Eli was not quite seven years old when he discovered that he was different. One March day, Eli looked into the eyes of his friend Thomas Wilkes and said, 'You are going to die on Tuesday.' And when the following Tuesday, after school, Tommy Wilkes fell from his treehouse and broke his neck it was inevitable that questions were asked . . .'

In this collection of stories Salley Vickers, master of the uncanny and the unexpected, explores bereavement and betrayal, closely guarded secrets, unforeseen endings and decidedly odd beginnings. From the woman who finds solace in a haunted graveyard to the artist obsessed by a wolf roaming loose in a park, the crown prince who becomes a great playwright to the refugee whose history lies hidden in an old sofa, we enter lives in which ordinary surfaces conceal dark and often disturbing depths.

In this collection of stories Salley Vickers, master of the uncanny and the unexpected, explores bereavement and betrayal, closely guarded secrets, unforeseen endings and decidedly odd beginnings. From the woman who finds solace in a haunted graveyard to the artist obsessed by a wolf roaming loose in a park, the crown prince who becomes a great playwright to the refugee whose history lies hidden in an old sofa, we enter lives in which ordinary surfaces conceal dark and often disturbing depths.

'Tremendous, unsettling, brilliantly creepy' Independent

''Vickers's inclination is to set the cat among the pigeons. These are stories in which life is not predictable and the supernatural never far off. At every turn, it is a collection that acknowledges the power of storytelling' Observer

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