The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

Nine-year old Louis Drax is a problem child. He's bright, precocious, deceitful and dangerously, disturbingly accident prone. On a family day out it seems almost predestined that something will happen. But this time it is worse than anyone could have imagined. Louis falls over a cliff into a ravine and lapses into a deep coma ; his father vanishes and his mother is paralysed by shock. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness, but the boy defies medical logic and the doctor is drawn into the dark heart of Louis's buried world. Only Louis holds the key to the mystery and he can't communicate. Or can he?