The Boy Lost in the Maze (Hardback) Joseph Coelho (author), Kate Milner (illustrator)

Shortlisted for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024

In his new verse novel, Joseph Coelho brilliantly blends Greek myth with a 21st century quest. In Ancient Greece Theseus makes a dangerous and courageous journey to find his father, finally meeting the Minotaur in the Labyrinth. While Theo, a modern-day teenage boy, finds himself on a maze-like quest to find his own father. Each story tells of a boy becoming a man and discovering what true manhood really means.

The path to self-discovery takes Theo through ‘those thin spaces where myth, magic and reality combine’. Doubts, difficulties and dangers must be faced as Theo discovers the man he will become.

Publisher: Otter-Barry Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781913074333
Number of pages: 320
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm