There's an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight. It's been there f
or an age. I keep on saying that I'll write a journal. So I'll start right here,
right now. I open the book and write the very first words: My name is Mina and
I love the night. Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened
then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal
grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life d
oes. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? And so Mina writes a
nd writes in her notebook, and here is her journal, Mina's life in Mina's own wo
rds: her stories and dreams, experiences and thoughts, her scribblings and nonse
nse, poems and songs. Her vivid account of her vivid life. In this stunning book
, David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skel
lig. Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal.
