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"British children's fantasy novel: a teenage boy lives two lives. in one he is in a small primitive village where a new leader or champion keeps arriving to face the same recurring menace because each predecessor is destroyed; the boy serves the leader. In real life he is a schoolboy in a very strict religious family with a disabled father, guilt over a dead child, and an outsider reveals the truth about the accident. After a death at home he chooses between the two lives."