by Matt Haig
The Radleys are seemingly a normal family in an affluent area of England. Father is a doctor, mother also an ex-medical student, children Clara and Rowan both teenage schoolchildren. However, there are things about them that are rather odd - the children are very pale, always sitting in the shade and always tired during the day, and the parents only socialise during the night. The parents have a secret which they have kept from their children - until the day Clara is attacked on her way home from a party and she ends up killing him - by sucking his blood. The Radleys are vampires, and the few days after the incident are filled with getting over the shock of the revelation, being chased by the police, angry parents, and a brother-in-law infatuated with the wife, determined to have her as his own.
It truly makes you think there could be vampires living in your street....
Matt Haig's new book for adults, The Humans, is out 9th May 2013. He is also the author of brilliant books for 9-12yrs - To Be a Cat and the Shadow Forest series.
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