`Completely engrossing. Reminiscent of those unsettling Stephen King stories of childhood` John Boyne author of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. We all have fears we hide from. But in the end they will find us . . . None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning. Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own? Was it the terrible accident? Or when they found the first body?