Bat Summer

“You might be a bat,” she says. “I’m not sure. We’ll have to do some more checking.” She looks at me with those piercing eyes and it’s like she’s trying to see my bones.I know it’s crazy, but as soon as she says it, I want more than anything to be a bat. I want my wings, man. I want to fly.Terence isn’t cool like his best friend, Tom, but at least he’s not a weirdo like Lucy, who sees life upside-down and thinks she’s a bat. Yet Lucy knows things that other people don’t – about the gaps in life, and seeing things more clearly with your eyes closed, and how you have to learn to fly on your own if you want to survive.A startling first novel about extraordinary Lucy, who believes she’s a bat, and ordinary Terence, who believes in believing.”A loopy kind of special story – it’s funny and it’s touching and it rings true.” Elizabeth Honey”I love these brave kids and their batty dreams.” Alison Lester