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Creature of the Night (novel) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Creature of the Night (novel)
''Creature of the Night'' is a young adult novel by Kate Thompson. It was first published by Bodley Head on June 5, 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Creature of the Night )〕 It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Teenage Prize )〕 ==Plot summary== Bobby, the fourteen-year-old narrator, is a thief and a hooligan. When his mother moves him and his young brother to a cottage in rural Ireland his only thought is how to get back to a life of crime in Dublin. Eventually he steals a Skoda car and goes back, only to find things have changed and he has no place there. He reluctantly returns to the cottage and is given work by a local farmer. The cottage they are living in is on a path between two fairy forts. The family is warned by the farmer’s mother to put out a bowl of milk every night, but they consider this a mere superstition. Being deprived of the milk, a little old fairy woman comes through the dog flap into the kitchen. Dennis, Bobby's brother, sees and accepts her, but for Bobby it is a baffling and rather frightening mystery.
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