Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and
dangerously, disturbingly, accident prone. When he falls off a cliff into a
ravine, the accident seems almost predestined.Louis miraculously survives - but
the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is
paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never
emerge.In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to
consciousness. But the boy defies medical logic, startling Dannachet out of his
safe preconceptions, and drawing him inexorably into the dark heart of Louis'
buried world. Only Louis holds the key to the