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"British children's fantasy or supernatural novel about a teenage boy in a very strict religious household. His father is permanently disabled from a long-ago accident, and the family is burdened by guilt over the death of another child. The boy has blackouts or lives a second life in a primitive village where he serves a leader/champion who must face a recurring threat that destroys each predecessor. An adult outside the family eventually explains the truth about the dead child, and after a death at home the boy must choose between the two lives/worlds."