Follow Me Down

by Julie Hearn

This is a sparkling, original time travel novel - the story of Tom, who travels back in time to the 18th century where he meets a group of people who are displayed as freaks at Bartholomew Fair. Against a vividly-drawn historical background, Tom is able to help them tackle some of their problems, while at the same acquiring the strength to tackle his own, modern-day problems. This is an outstanding debut novel from major new author. Julie Hearn was formerly a tabloid journalist, and studied Creative Writing with Philip Pullman, who is a supporter of her work.

• ISBN10: 0192719270
• ISBN13: 9780192719270
• Publish Date: 3 July 2003
• Publish Status: Active
• Out of Print: 7 January 2007
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Oxford University Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

Tom is dealing with his mother's cancer. His father is in Australia and his mother decides that it's time to visit her mother and make amends.

There's something odd in the basement though, voices and smells filter through from the early 18th century, and through a gap in the room, Tom finds himself in 18th Century London, among the Freaks from a freakshow.

Their Giant is dead and they want to save him from the Anatomists. Passing from his own time to the earlier time - where he's invisible but his clothes aren't! Being in the past hurts too but Tom wants to help.

An interesting story about coming to terms with things and trying to learn to live with both the things you can change and the things you can't and the courage to do what you can to change both yourself and to help others.