The Flower King
Digital version – browse, print or download
Can't see the preview?
Click here!
How to print the digital edition of Books for Keeps: click on this PDF file link - click on the printer icon in the top right of the screen to print.
BfK Newsletter
Receive the latest news & reviews direct to your inbox!
Cover Story
The illustration on our cover this month is by Andrew Skilleter from Susan Cooper's Over Sea, Under Stone. Susan Cooper is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell. The book is published by Bodley Head, to whom we are grateful for help in using this illustration.
PDF
Printer-friendly version
Send to friend
The Flower King
The theme of a contemporary character discovering a past generation's secret is handled confidently here. Set in Cornwall, it concerns the friendship between a teenage boy (we never learn his name) and a resident of an old people's home. His interest in her memories of the Flower King, a local landowner who was murdered, diverts him from the unhappiness of his family life. Strikingly written - the narrator's psychic awareness of colour and mood is effectively deployed - and an impressive first novel.
