Winner of a Gold Award for best Abridged Contemporary Fiction at the Spoken Word Awards 2005. Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and disturbingly accident prone. When, on his ninth birthday, he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. The boy miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered. Louis` father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the case defies medical logic, startling Pascal Dannachet and drawing him reluctantly into the dark heart of Louis` buried world. Only Louis holds the key to the mystery surrounding his fall - and he can`t communicate. Or can he?. Narrated alternately by Louis, from the depths of his coma, and Dr Dannachet, his baffled physician, the story is ideally suited to audio and will showcase the skill of the two narrators who will read it.
