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Illustrator Kevin Longport Language English Publication date 1 January 2002 Originally published 1 January 2002 Genre Children's literature Publisher HarperCollins | 3.7/5 Goodreads Cover artist Connie Talbot Series 1 Pages 288 Page count 288 Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Feather boy is a novel by Brighton-based author Nicky Singer; it was first published in 2002 by HarperCollins, under the Collins imprint.
Contents
Synopsis
Robert Nobel is a boy who despairs of his newly divorced parents. He is the victim of classroom jokes and a victim of Niker, the classroom bully. Robert is haunted by dreams that seem to tell the future as well as the past. His life changes when a storyteller, Catherine, invites some of his class to Mayfield Rest Home, a place Robert has previously dreamed about.
An old lady, Edith Sorrel, sends him on a quest to solve the mystery of the derelict Chance House, which has a legend regarding ghosts attached to it.
Adaptations
Feather Boy was adapted by the BBC into a children's series, directed by Dermot Boyd, starring Thomas Sangster, Sheila Hancock, Ronald Pickup, Aaron Johnson and Lindsey Coulson. The first episode was broadcast on CBBC on BBC 1 on 16 March 2004.
In late 2005, Peter Tabern and Nicky Singer adapted the book, into a musical with music and lyrics by Don Black and Debbie Wiseman. It was adapted for the 2006 cycle of plays for the Shell Connections Festival.