Book of Thunder and Lightning, The : A Novel

A vigilante ghost stalks the East End of London... Before the lightning, he was just a boy, now he?s ready for revenge.The Book of Thunder and Lightning?is a Gothic mashup of Oliver Twist?and Top Boy, a love letter to London, wrapped up in a mind-bending ghost story.In 1888, unlucky Tom Baxter is thrown into a world of toxic masculinity, where his only weapon is his imagination.But at least he?s got his crew, a gang of misfits just like him, to back him up.As lightning stretches across time and space to a gritty 21st-century London, history is repeating itself.Tom has the chance to save his modern-day twin, with help from a reluctant hero, a posh girl from Chelsea, and a donkey called Dorris.His luck has to change sometime, right?