This is a peculiar story about peculiar children and the events surrounding their existence. Sixteen year old Jacob sees the creature who killed his grandfather. His grandfather's cryptic last words leave him with a mystery that connects strange photographs found in his grandfather's house and a remote Welsh island. Throughout the book are odd vintage photographs of...peculiar children doing peculiar and magical things: floating in mid-air, holding fire, wearing bizarre constumes, appearing invisible, etc. All of it ties together in a fantasy/time travel story involving a group of refugees trapped in a Brigadoon-like existence whose peaceful, if unusual, life is about to be ripped apart. The author ends the book with the possibility of more about the peculiar children to come. I wasn't sure I liked this book at first but then it became one I couldn't put down. The photographs alone are fascinating.
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