EYE IN THE STORM

Scholastic; ISBN 0868964425

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EYE IN THE CITY

Scholastic; ISBN 1865045551

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My first two books were the children’s adventure novels Eye in the Storm and its sequel Eye in the City. The principal character in the books is a boy called Jeremy who is blind. But Jeremy has a secret, he can ‘astral travel’. And when Jeremy astral travels, he can see.

I don’t know quite where the central idea of the blind boy came from, but the setting which I used in Eye in the Storm is very much lifted from my early memories. The sea and boats and islands played a predominant part in my childhood . The choice of the ‘adventure’ genre too was automatic. I was a tomboy and preferred reading boys’ books rather than girls’. So I suppose, in writing the ‘Eye’ novels, I was really writing to the child within.