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As well as being a number one bestselling writer for adults, Matt Haig has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal for his stories for children and young adults. The idea for the Christmas series came when his son asked what Father Christmas was like as a boy
Chris Mould went to art school at the age of sixteen. He has won the Nottingham Children's Book Award and been commended by the Sheffield Children's Book Award. He loves his work and likes to write and draw the kind of books that he would have liked to have had on his shelf as a boy. He is married with two children and lives in Yorkshire.
Also by Matt Haig
The Girl Who Saved Christmas
A Boy Called Christmas
Echo Boy
To Be A Cat
The Runaway Troll
Shadow Forest
Published in Great Britain in 2017 by Canongate Books Ltd,
14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published in 2017 by Canongate Books
Copyright © Matt Haig, 2017
Illustrations © Chris Mould, 2017
The moral right of the author has been asserted
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 78689 072 6
eISBN 978 1 78689 076 4
Typeset in Bembo by
Palimpsest Book Production Ltd, Falkirk, Stirlingshire
For Pearl, Lucas and Andrea
Contents
The bit after the book where you thank people
Somewhere Else
But the thing you probably don’t know about is me.
I will start by telling you the things that are easy to believe.
My name is Amelia Wishart and I have a black cat called Captain Soot. I was born in London, and I lived there until I was eleven years old. And then I lived somewhere else.
It is the somewhere
