SpaceboyAmerica. The 1960s Ruth loves climbing trees, making a mess and throwing stones. But the thing she loves most is SPACE. The girl is OBSESSED. She spends her days reading comics about alien invasions, doodling UFOs, watching B movies about Earth being invaded by creatures from Mars and gazing at the stars through her old, battered telescope. Until one night, Ruth creeps out of bed in the attic room of her rickety old farmhouse to watch the stars and is

Horsetown is pre-industrial

a quick-witted

While his wife Edith and former lover Jill Francis join forces in an uneasy alliance to try to help him

including a letter

her beloved Canberra

This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy

'Bursts at the seams with big ideas

not false imprisonment for murder

bubbling with mysteries

especially with a murderer who plans to keep irrepressible Agatha permanently in Fryfam - as a resident corpse

where he lived in a Bombay slum

Born the wrong way and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen