The dreamwalker's child

Author's note: The work is a 75,000 word novel. It is original because it creates a new, imagined world, connected with our own, where insects are flown as fighter jets and the protagonist is able to exist, on different levels, in both. As one critic wrote: "I will never look at insects in the same way again". It is significant because, in addition to the above, it also addressed important issues of pollution and conservation. It was the subject of a bidding war between four major publishers in the UK and, separately, five major publishers in the U.S. It has since been translated into many different languages around the world. The novel was written as a result of rigorous attention to story structure, character development and, where appropriate, entomological research.