A boy's village childhood with all the traditional attributes - family, tree-climbing, a bicycle - is bedeviled by the mystifying appearances of Mr Sommer. Moving silently through the landscape, with his empty rucksack and walking stick, he runs like a black thread through the boy's days.
- ISBN10 0747518769
- ISBN13 9780747518761
- Publish Date 17 November 1994 (first published 15 October 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 July 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 256
- Language English