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Matthew Fox

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Winner of the Bath Children's Novel Award

Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist 2024

Financial Times Best Children's Books 2023

Waterstones Best Childrens Fiction Books 2022

Publishers Weekly ★ Review of The Sky Over Rebecca

Booklist ★ Review of The Sky Over Rebecca


Praise for The Lovely Dark:

★★★★★ "A book to teach children about death, and move adults to tears. Fox is a beguiling writer, whose prose cocoons us through the unusual adventures that follow. It is only at the end that the true hero of this deeply affecting story emerges." - Emily Bearn, The Telegraph

"A triumph of a MG novel, exploring death and friendship and hope and perseverance. ... This novel broke me apart and put me back together (thank goodness!). It’s an absolute mus
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Average rating: 4.11 · 462 ratings · 129 reviews · 2 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Sky Over Rebecca

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 361 ratings — published 2022 — 11 editions
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The Lovely Dark

4.49 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions
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This book has everything! All the tractors, diggers, lorries, bikes and buses you could need. It’s kept our 3 year old fascinated these last few days – and we were especially pleased to see a canal boat here as we just took a trip on one last weekend ...more
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Topics Mentioning This Author

Margaret Atwood
“Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in time and exist in two places at once.”
Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

Mark Twain
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
Mark Twain

Ali Smith
“Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.”
Ali Smith, How to be Both

Stephen Koch
“And please don't sink into this woeful nonsense about not having time to read...The real culprit here is almost never your schedule. It is your boredom--your boredom with the books you think you are supposed to read. Find a book you want, a book that gives you real trembling excitement, a book that is hot in your hands, and you'll have time galore.”
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Stephen Koch
“Incredibly, there are people—smart people—who think a prim disdain for drama is somehow a sign of “good taste.” It is more often the reverse: a lamentable insensitivity to the essence of the art, a failure to “get it” on the most essential level. It is more often a sign not of good taste but of artistic insecurity. Not knowing how far to go, the writer goes nowhere. Lifelessness is not a form of elegance you should pursue.”
Stephen Koch, The Modern Library Writer's Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction

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