'A lovely story of trying to understand the big wide world through a
child's eyes. A Map of the Sky is so well written it made me feel young
again! It captures the beauty and drama of the North Yorkshire coast as
though you are there, allowing you to escape the hurry of modern life.
Highly recommended.' CL Smith, author of the Kadogos trilogy
Kit doesn't understand why his family has been uprooted to a remote
coastal village in the North. Why did they leave so suddenly, and why
has his Dad not joined them? At Askfeld Farm Guesthouse, he meets an
eclectic group of new neighbours and forms an unlikely friendship with
Beth, who suffers from a chronic illness he does not understand. Kit
learns that Beth, who cannot leave the guesthouse, is trying to draw a
map from memory that shows all her favourite childhood haunts.
Kit makes it his quest to help her remember by visiting places for her
and hopes to solve the problems of the other guests along the way. But
becoming a hero like the ones in his favourite books is trickier than it
seems. Can Kit work out that the person who really needs his help is
much closer to home?