Flawed Angel

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Once upon a time in a Middle Eastern land, a fat, sweet-natured little boy grows up as the son of an important ruler. His older brother was apparently still-born and so he is the heir to his father’s kingdom. But far away from the royal palace a lonely prospector happens across a wild boy, half human, half-animal, roaming the forests. Eventually this strange child’s adventures lead him to the capital and into the path of a platoon of deserters from Napoleon's army - the flashy, ultimately dangerous, face of Enlightenment thought in this isolated kingdom – with drastic consequences. With original poems embedded like gems in the text, this is a fable for all ages, full of shivers and delights, sadness and wonder.

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John Fuller's latest collection of poetry, Ghosts, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize. He is also a respected novelist: his fiction includes Flying to Nowhere (1983), which won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction, Look Twice (1991), The Worm and the Star (1993) and A Skin Diary (1997). His books written for children include The Last Bid (1975) and The Extraordinary Wool Mill and Other Stories (1980). The Memoirs of Laetitia Horsepole, by Herself (2001), is a portrait of the eighteenth-century painter, philosopher and femme fatale. John Fuller is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in Oxford.