The new boyfriend is violent and abusive. He and his mother had been alright when they had been alone together, but now his mother’s new partner has spoilt everything. Billy is desperate to make things change at home. (Pavilion) – hardback In a similar structure to Pam Smy’s earlier graphic novel, Thornhill, two stories are told and interwoven. The Hideaway is a compelling, exciting and emotional story that carries great resonance. The old man befriends Billy and tells him of the amazing things that are to happen on All Souls’ Eve. His attempt at hiding away from what is happening at home is interrupted by an old man, who works in the graveyard where Billy has made his temporary home. The other story relates his mother’s situation at home and the police search for Billy.Ĭovering themes of family, childhood, separation and reunion, domestic violence and doing the right thing, this is an important and beautiful book and confirms Pam Smy as a writer of great heft.īilly’s story is illustrated throughout with beautiful monochrome illustrations. He then goes on to witness supernatural events that will change his perspective completely.
One tells of Billy’s experience of hiding away in the graveyard, escaping a home where his mother’s partner is violent and of his mixed-up feelings and emotions. Both tell different facets of the same story. Merrylegs (2019), the story of one pony’s journey to self-acceptance, is Smy’s first picture book for younger readers.Like Pam Smy’s earlier novel, Thornhill, The Hideaway is written in two alternating narratives. This book tells the story of Billy, who runs away from home and takes refuge in a graveyard. Pam Smy’s second graphic novel for older readers, The Hideaway, is due to be published in October 2020. Thornhill was shortlisted for the 2018 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, and longlisted for the 2018 Kate Greenaway Medal. Growing up, Smy loved classic stories with strong female characters at their centre - Jane Eyre (1847), The Secret Garden (1911), Wuthering Heights (1847)- and you can see their influence in the suspenseful, Gothic atmosphere she creates in Thornhill. Is the first book that she has written as well as illustrated.
She teaches illustration at the Cambridge School of Art and has been illustrating children’s books for over 15 years. The unsettling stories of two lonely young girls run parallel to each other as Ella sets out to uncover the dark secrets of Thornhill and the mysterious puppets she finds in its overgrown garden.Ī chilling ghost story with a dual narrative told partly in diary entries and partly in atmospheric, wordless sepia illustrations. Ella has moved house and is drawn to the derelict ruin she can see from her bedroom window. Mary shuts herself away from her tormentors at the Institute for Children she calls home.
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