As soon as they reach their destination, Andy escapes to find his father. During the trip, Aunt Mona reveals to him that his father is still alive – and living in Halifax. Aunt Mona, whom he has never met, takes him to live with her in Halifax, on the opposite side of the country. Suddenly the only world Andy has ever known is gone and he is alone. ‘Save their children!’ the Old Ones ordered.Īndy Flynn is one of those saved, but his mother and stepfather both die in the Flood. They saw homes of mortals tumbling into the creek.

This was followed by a Flood of water and mud over the meadow that swept the Sheehogue rapidly along in nature’s unexpected waterslide. The first thing the slumbering Sheehogue knew was the deafening boom that tumbled them from their grassy bowers.

It rains nearly every day, until the rivers burst their banks: But why has Tom been transported across time and place? And why must The Grave keep yanking him back, at intervals, to his dreary, lonely existence in Liverpool? Most of all, what does it mean that the Monaghan’s son Tully is practically Toms double? Tom stands by the Monaghan’s in their plight, and in so doing discovers that the past, and the Monaghans, hold the key to his destiny. A family named Monaghan takes him in, and Tom experiences for the first time what its like to have parents and siblings who cleave to one another even amid terrible hardship. He discovers that he is no longer in Liverpool in 1974 but in Ireland in 1847, the height of the potato famine. When he hears rumors that a mass grave has been unearthed on his school grounds, he feels himself inexplicably drawn to it, and then down into its terrible darkness and beyond. Abandoned in a shopping mall when he was a baby, thirteen year old Tom Mullen has no family he’s spent his life shuffled from one rotten foster home to another.

Hit squad by james heneghan