Synopsis
‘Mondays are red. Sadness has an empty
blue smell. And music can taste of anything from banana
purée to bat’s pee. That’s what I
need to explain, starting with the day it all began,
the day I woke up in a hospital bed with a kaleidoscope
in my head...’ Luke wakes from a coma to find
that his sensory world has been transformed –
he’s seeing music, smelling colours and tasting
what his fingers touch. But there’s also the
sinister Dreeg, a chameleon-like incubus who’s
inhabiting his head. As Luke begins to recover, he
is tempted by Dreeg to strike a Faustian pact –
his soul in exchange for limitless power. Carried
along at first by the dazzling promises, Luke must
eventually make a fatal choice – the irresistible
temptations of teaching his conceited sister a lesson
she won’t forget and winning his athletics race,
or reverting to his honest, ordinary life.
Cross-curricular links and
themes
- Citizenship
and PSHE –
family relationships.
- Science –
the senses; synaesthesia.
- Music –
what colours do you see in different pieces of music?
- Art and Design
– work on colours, can you draw feelings,
emotions?
- Themes –
colour and the senses; power and violence; good
and evil; health and sickness; family relationships.
| ISBN
0 340 88353 7 £6.99
January 2005 192pp |
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