Eleven-year-old Peter Stephen Mele is just an ordinary kid, who does not yet know how one foot put in foul play can change an entire life. When his mother slips and hits her head on a rock, he begins a long battle with his own guilt. His father, Seb, with his exasperated self-centeredness, pours the responsibility for the incident onto Peter and abandons him in the small Sardinian village of San Leonardo de Siete Fuentes, at Grandma Sircana’s, who up to that point has been, for his grandson, only a stranger. The old woman lives in a house at the edge of the woods and seems to have no intention of opening her world to Peter. However, day by day, a deep understanding develops between the two. The novel of a great literary voice, the story of the formation to life of the wild boy in each of us. (Source: Ibs.co.uk)
