Beyond The Gate

by Daniel Kennedy, Yana Naumova (Illustrations)

‘There are magical places everywhere. Other worlds tucked away inside our own, like strawberries mixed up in a great big cake. Nobody talks about them, because nobody wants to spoil the secret, but they're out there, beyond ordinary looking gates, just waiting to be found and tasted. Only you have to know what to feel when you do... because it's feeling things that makes them magical.’ Dylan, an enigmatic nine-year-old with a gift for asking questions, unexpectedly befriends his grandfather, an ill-mannered eighty-seven-year-old with an extraordinary way of answering them. What follows is a journey through time; of imagination revealing truth, and friendship overcoming loss.

342 pages, Paperback

Published April 10, 2015

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Reviews

[Kay Gordon · Rating 4 out of 5]

At first I found this quite a difficult book to get into but I’m glad I persevered because once I’d got the two main characters voices in my head I started to really like them. The characters felt almost semi autobiographical, like the author as a small boy talking to his Grandad? The life lessons the Grandad was passing on to his Grandson (and vice versa) weren’t laboured over but just became part of the conversation between the two different generations.