Stories In The Dark
by Debra Oswald

A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war torn city.

He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total blackness his bravado crumbles into tears.

Into his life steps Anna older, street smart and scornful of his crying.

As a way of shutting the boy up, she starts to tell him a story that she vaguely remembers from her own childhood.

And so begins a journey into the shifting, shimmering world of ogres, princes, singing bones, foolish lads and wolf-mothers.

Stories in the Dark explores the power of storytelling, mingling the magic and earthy wisdom of folk tales with the hard-edged story of violence, conflict and the struggle to survive.