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    Counter Clockwise

    By Jason Cockcroft

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    About this ebook

    What if your mother were hit by a bus?

    And what if your father disappeared one day through a hole in the bathroom wall?

    Is there a way to change the course of your life's history?

    What if time moved

    In this dazzling debut novel, Jason Cockcroft has crafted a mind-bending adventure with a startlingly original narrative structure.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 6, 2009
    ISBN9780061972089
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    Counter Clockwise
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    Jason Cockcroft

    Jason Cockcroft is the illustrator of many acclaimed picture books, including Room for a Little One: A Christmas Tale by Martin Waddell, Billywise by Judith Nicholls, and Jason and the Golden Fleece by James Riordan. He lives in Whitby, England, with his wife, Lisa, and their two cats. This is his first novel.

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    • 4/5
      Nathan's mother has been run over by a bus and he now lives with his father Henry - a not altogether satisfactory state of affair. Then, suddenly one day Henry disappears leaving a hole in the bathroom wall and Nathan is plunged into an adventure that involves a Beefeater and questions about the nature of time.In the beginning this book is quite baffling but if you persist, you will be drawn into Nathan's exciting adventure.
    • 2/5
      With the aid of Bartleby, an enormous Tower of London guard known as a Beefeater, Nathan travels through time to stop his father from changing the past.