The Daydreamer takes the reader out of reality and into the dream world of 10 year old Peter Fortune
In these seven interlinked stories the grown-up Peter reveals the secret journeys, metamorphoses and adventures of his childhood. Living somewhere between dream and reality Peter experiences magical transformations when he swaps bodies with William, the family cat, the baby Kenneth and, in the final story, wakes up as a twelve-year-old inside a grown-up body and experiences the adventure of falling in love.
Author ProfileIan McEwan has written two collections of stories, as well as many novels and screenplays. He won the 1998 Booker Prize for
Amsterdam, and was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for
Atonement.
ReviewsExhilarating - brilliant,A classic,Clear and vivid prose...read these aloud to your children and be unsettled by them
