Dug out by... DaveIn a mini-cab office at 5 o'clock in the morning, Lucas Swain meets the intriguing Violet Park. He just has to get to know her, find out more about her.
A perfectly ordinary desire for a 15-year-old boy - to want to get to know a member of the opposite sex - surely?
But she's not a young woman, she's old. And she's not a living woman either, she's dead. In fact, all that remains of her is her ashes in a pot on the cab office shelf.
It's a voyage of discovery for Lucas. He has to know more about Violet. As he digs deeper, Lucas uncovers a trail that leads him to face ghosts from the past as well as the present.
Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
Longlisted for Carnegie 08
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