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The 1,000-Year-Old Boy

By: Ross Welford
Narrated by: Chris Coxon, Luke Johnson
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The astonishing, beautiful new story from the best-selling and Costa short-listed author of Time Travelling with a Hamster.

There are stories about people who want to live forever.

This is not one of those stories.

This is a story about someone who wants to stop....

Alfie Monk is like any other nearly teenage boy - except he's 1,000 years old and can remember the last Viking invasion of England.

Obviously no-one believes him.

So when everything Alfie knows and loves is destroyed in a fire and the modern world comes crashing in, Alfie embarks on a mission to find friendship, acceptance and a different way to live...which means finding a way to make sure he will eventually die.

©2018 Ross Welford (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

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My favorite book ever

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so good ....

I loved it so much . interesting and amazing I loved the story.. so good 💕💕👍

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A must read for all ages!

I am so charmed by this author and his story telling. I enjoyed every page of this book. The characters are lovable, the story is moving, and the ending made me tear up. People of all ages can enjoy this.

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"I long to grow up to be a man. I long to be in a hurry to do something, before time runs out. I long for the feeling that life is precious, that have to cram as much as can into every sun-drenched day and every frost-filled night; to know that childhood is special because it does not last forever.”

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