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"British children's fantasy novel. Teenage boy has abrupt lapses and seems to live two lives. In one he is in a small pre-industrial community plagued by a recurring danger; each new leader faces it and is destroyed, and the boy is drawn into that leader's service. In the other he is a present-day schoolboy in a very strict religious home with a father permanently disabled by an old accident and guilt over a child's death. A sympathetic adult reveals the truth about that death; later a death at home forces the boy to choose between the two lives."