Soon, the newest instalment in Morris Gleitzman’s Once, Then, After and Now series, is an awesomely epic adventure starring a boy named Felix. It is set after the second world war, in an era when times are really tough. Felix struggles to look after himself and his drunken guardian, Gabriek. Then, when he gets into a huge fight that involved guns, he finds a new member to his family: an orphaned baby.
As the struggle to continue surviving becomes worse, he comes across help in a doctor who is running a small orphan home. There, Felix makes friends fast with a girl called Anya.
But something strange is happening. Anya is ill and Felix is trying to solve it. Then they find out the doctor is not all he says he is and they know why Anya is always vomiting…
I really enjoyed this amazing story. It is the best book I have ever read! It is imaginative and I finished it within 2 weeks! I never wanted to put this amazing and thrilling story down. And as Morris says “Their stories are the real stories”.
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