Midget (novel)

Midget

Paperback edition 1999
Author Tim Bowler
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Young adult
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date
7 January 1999
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 144
ISBN 978-0-19-275037-2

Midget is the first novel by British author Tim Bowler, first published in 1994. It is set in Leigh-on-Sea and is a psychic and psychological thriller. The Sunday Telegraph described Midget as ‘a masterly handling of suspense and cold, trickling horror.'.[1]

Teenage Midget is abnormally small and can barely speak. He has fits as a result of the secret abuse he suffers at the hands of his psychopathic older brother, Seb, who is to outward appearances utterly devoted. Midget dreams of buying a boat and sailing away, but people say it'll take a miracle for that to happen. Midget knows miracles can happen, but sometimes they hurt people who get in the way.[2]

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  1. [Sunday Telegraph]
  2. [Oxford University Press]

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