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As a boy Nathan Penlington had loved Choose Your Own Adventure novels. So when he came across a set of the first 106 volumes for sale on eBay, he snapped them up. Picking up the first, The Cave of Time, he was looking forward to a nostalgic trip back to his own childhood. What he discovered instead would send him off on adventure all of his own.
As he turned the pages, there was another story being written – in the margins were scribblings by the little boy who had originally owned them, a boy called Terence. There were hints on the coming adventure and jokes, but also something darker. Terence wrote about being bullied at school, the things he hated about himself, of a desperate need for friends. Later Nathan came across a few pages of diary. Nathan’s search for Terence is at once funny, moving and more than a little quixotic. There would be dead ends and crossed wires, and along the way Nathan would have to face his own childhood demons. It is a story about the dark places that can exist in any childhood, but also of the sanctuary to be found in books.

Gosh this was an enthralling absolutely compelling story of those things that can happen in real life and I have to say I’m very very sad to be leaving this one behind, I have lived every moment of it.

Nathan Penlington’s journey is at times both hilarious and emotional and he writes with a wry wit and dry humour even in the darker moments. As he tracks down “The Boy in the Book”, hits a few bumps in the road, discovers as much about himself as anyone else, this will have you as much on the edge of your seat as any thriller would, and may well spark an interest in a variety of subjects. Since reading this I have tracked down as much information as I can find on “The Great Diary Project”, discovered a fascination with what our style of writing gives away about us and examined closely my own penchant for collecting things…

I genuinely can’t think of anything else to say without spoiling the whole ambience of this one – but if you have a love of books and the escape they can give you, its an absolute must that you read this tale. Add to that the fact that it is a heartwarming and uplifting story as well as a very intuitive and captivating one, I can’t imagine that there is a single reader out there who would not take something important away with them after reading it. So you know, go on!

More Here: http://nathanpenlington.com/

The Great Diary Project: http://www.thegreatdiaryproject.co.uk/

Purchase Information: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boy-Book-Nathan-Penlington/dp/0755365690/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1401812378&sr=1-1&keywords=the+boy+in+the+book+nathan+penlington

Happy Reading Folks!