Heaven

HEAVEN is a fast, fantastical read, through which you might trip over issues of god and grief and terrorism and moral responsibility. Heaven is the story of thirteen year-old Cassina Dixon who gets blown up in a suicide bomb and becomes a para-spirit. Para-spirits are someway between the para-normal and a parasite -- they need to live in people's heads. Inside the brains of her parents, or mad Aunt Lou, or the suicide bomber (who survives the explosion, a little twist in its own right...) Cassina has access to thoughts, dreams and memories. But there's a para-spirit rule -- you're not allowed into the heads of children. Why not? Who says so? The suicide bomber has a new mission and it involves a child. Now Cassina faces an impossible choice...Nicky Singer is an author of exceptional quality. Her first book for children, Feather Boy, won the Blue Peter Book Award in 2002 and is a BBC TV drama in Spring 2004, starring Sheila Hancock and Thomas Sangster. 'Feather Boy is simply fabulous...an emotionally intense suspense novel of the highest order.' Michael Thorn, Achuka