Dead Edward

by Stephen Moore

When Edward trips over his home-made Guy Fawkes one night and hurtles to the bottom of the stairs, he doesn't know that this is going to be the very last moment of his life. Suddenly, he must come to terms with being a ghost – dressed for all eternity in a grubby T-shirt and his sister’s fluffy slippers! But that’s not the worst of it. When he meets the other ghostly inhabitants of number thirteen, City Road he makes a shocking discovery. It seems that eternity doesn't last forever! And being dead is the least of his worries...

154 pages, Paperback

First published March 14, 2014

About the author

I'm a British author who's written several successful fantasy novels for older children, young-adults and adult readers. The very first book I wrote, a fantasy adventure called SPILLING THE MAGIC, was published in 1996 by Hodder Children’s Books. Its sequel, FIDDLESTICKS AND FIRESTONES, quickly followed. My most notable success came in 1998 with the publication of the highly acclaimed TOOTH AND CLAW and its sequel SKIN AND BONE, both gritty, 'talking animal' fantasies. THE BRUGAN followed in 1999. DEAD EDWARD, a fantasy ghost story, in 2001, and FAY, an urban fairy tale, in 2006. Finally, 2015 saw the appearance of my first fantasy novel for adults when Harper Voyager published GRAYNELORE, my ‘grown-up fairy tale’. Along the way I’ve had books translated into Hebrew, Italian and Russian. I live in the North of England, a landscape which has been a strong influence on many of my fictional worlds. However, I have no plans to write more. That said, I'm definitely not dead; life's big adventure goes on…

Reviews

[Heather Cawte · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are many stories written about ghosts, and the people they haunt. There are more every day, or so it seems, about zombies. But there are very few, especially in YA literature, about the experience of simply being dead.

Edward, the narrator, is 14 years old, and dead. It takes a while for him to understand that he's dead, and not simply lying at the bottom of the stairs, having tripped over his Guy Fawkes. But he soon discovers that there is much more to being dead than he ever realised when he was alive.....

An entertaining cast of fellow dead people, plenty of adventure and jeopardy, a lot of humour and not a little sadness make this a thought-provoking, enjoyable, fluent read that really draws you in and makes you care about the characters. It's a highly unusual premise, and Stephen Moore pulls it off with great panache and charm.

[Louise Shearer · Rating 5 out of 5]

myself and my daughter read this book when it was first published ,we were chatting about it recently and with happy memories of it I have decided that I am going to revisit Dead Edward

[Rita Thompson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sorry did not read wrong book