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"Have you ever been haunted Maureen Quilling? Ever looked in the mirror wondering if the eyes looking back at you were yours? Ever sat in an empty room, and realised you were not alone? It's not pleasant."

After the murder of his family, a toddler wanders into a long abandoned graveyard where the residents agree to raise him as one of their own.

But the man who killed his family, is on a mission, and he wants the whole family dead, particularly the one who got away. And he is not about to give up his quest, for his future, and that of the others in his group, rests upon the death of this child.

Named 'Nobody Owens', or Bod for short, he treads the shimmering line between the living and the dead, not quite belonging to either, making friends on both sides, enemies on only the one - that of the living.

The Graveyard Books deals with humanity, kindness, duplicity, bullying and suicide. There is a lot in this book that will benefit children, all wrapped up in Neil Gaiman's beautiful writing style. Although the content may sound a little gruesome, it is handled with Gaiman's finesse and I would have no problem sharing this book with children.

"'They kill themselves, you mean?' said Bod. He was about eight years old, wide-eyed and inquisitive, and he was not stupid.
'Indeed.'
'Does it work? Are they happier dead?'
'Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they will be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.' "