Category: Fiction
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India (forthcoming)
Nightmare Valley wraps the most alarming of children’s fears into a story so funny and fantastical, wild and adventurous, that they don’t realise they are meeting and rollicking alongside the very things that frighten them.
Ten-year-old Aru, with his new and annoyingly cute baby sister, is haunted by nightmares of being left alone. His friends confess the dreams that wake them up shivering. On an overnight bus ride, Aru gets lost in the middle of the Western Ghats. A chase, fall and blackout later, he awakes to find himself being attacked by the very terrifying creatures that haunt his friends’ nightmares. They are real! In a fast-paced and heart warming adventure, Aru faces the worst fears imaginable and comes out (along with the readers) stronger, braver – and laughing.
The author: Jane De Suza