Shadow Man
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This issue’s cover is from J K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third book in what is already a classic new series. The first two titles were Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Thanks to Bloomsbury Children’s Books for their help. Cover image based on original artwork by Cliff Wright
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Shadow Man
In a sequence of short chapters this impressive novel relates the consequences of the car crash in which the hero, 18-year-old Gabriel McCloud, is killed. It is a death which affects many in the brilliantly evoked small-town American community, but principally his pregnant girlfriend Jennie, now facing the dual task of coming to terms with a past tragedy and confronting an uncertain future. ‘You’re born, you live for a while, you die,’ she reflects; but rarely, in this particular genre, has this observation been treated with such candour or poignancy. Stylistically and thematically, Grant brings a powerful and distinctive imagination to bear on the well-tried motif of young love cruelly devastated.
