The Ninth Life of Louis Drax (BBC Children's Collection)

Jensen, Liz

3.58

5,467 ratings by Goodreads

9780563526377: The Ninth Life of Louis Drax (BBC Children's Collection)

ISBN 10: 0563526378 ISBN 13: 9780563526377

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd, 2005

Liz Jensen's taut psychological thriller is read by Andrew Sachs and Ben Tibber 'Remarkable suspense...mysterious and wrenching' - Anthony Minghella. I'm not most kids. I'm Louis Drax. Stuff happens to me that shouldn't happen, like going on a picnic where you drown...Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful and disturbingly accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a ravine, the accident seems almost predestined. The boy miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a coma from which he may never emerge. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the case defies medical logic, startling the doctor out of his safe preconceptions, and drawing him inexorably into the dark heart of Louis' buried world. Only Louis holds the key to the mystery surrounding his fall - and he can't communicate. Or can he? Read by Andrew Sachs (Manuel, "Fawlty Towers") and Ben Tibber (lead, "I Am David"), this is an intriguing, shocking, poignant and heartbreaking story about what the human heart can inflict and the mind endure.

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Liz Jensen - The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

Review:

This is a wonderfully unsettling psychological thriller ... An oddly beautiful journey into the darkest corners of the human soul (Mail on Sunday)

A gripping psychological thriller with a gothic flavour ... Unputdownable (Daily Telegraph)

A magnetic read that will delight and disturb (Daily Mail)

A remarkable suspense novel: tart, mysterious and wrenching (Anthony Minghella, Academy Award-winning director)

Emotionally compelling, morally fascinating . breathtaking (Independent on Sunday)

A dramatic, suspenseful bestseller ... Demands to be finished in one sitting (Observer)

Shocking, moving and beautifully written, The Ninth Life Of Louis Drax is an extraordinary novel about family mystery and medical marvels (Image)

Contains many heart-stopping moments where the tension is cranked up almost to breaking point (Sunday Telegraph)

Black, teasing but very humane (Guardian)

A masterclass in mystery and manipulation (Independent)

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