Product Description
A powerful and thought-provoking novel from a promising new writer.
The first time Sam sees the mysterious figure of Janet she vanishes into the fields beyond the town where nothing has ever been built. Sam learns that centuries before, this was the place to which plague victims were banished -- Scabbit Isle. Sam unearth’s Janet’s history and finds out that she was banished to Scabbit Isle by her cruel father, where she continues to suffer without hope. Can Sam summon up the courage to face the terrors of Scabbit Isle and, like Orpheus, venture into the underworld to bring Janet peace?
About the Author
Tom Pow was born in Edinburgh. He studied at the University of St Andrews before teaching English in schools in Edinburgh, London, Madrid and Dumfries where he now lives with his wife and two children. He has taken up Writer's Bursaries to travel to South America and Africa and spent 1992-3 as Scottish/Canadian Writing Fellow based at the University of Alberta. In 1999 he went part time to concentrate on his writing. Tom was Scotland's first Virtual Writer in Residence and first ever Writer in Residence at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2001. Primarily a poet Tom has also written a travel book, radio plays a substantial amount of Journalism and two picture books for children.
