Accompanied by his aunt's Norwegian elkhound, Ibsen, twelve-year-old Samuel ventures into a weird forest filled with strange and dangerous creatures to rescue his younger sister, Martha, who has been mute since their parents' recent death.
Matt Haig is the author of two adult novels,
The Dead Fathers Club and
The Last Family in England. UK reviewers have said of his writing: “totally engrossing,” “touching, quirky and macabre,” “a comic tour de force,” and “so surprising and strange that it vaults into a realm all of its own . . . most of all it allows Haig to indulge his innocently acute eye for detail and his delightfully weird imagination.”
Samuel Blink and the Forbidden Forest is his first novel for young readers. He lives in the UK.