Other editions of book The Tooth Fairy

This classic award-winning novel tells the story of young Sam who wakes one night to find the Tooth Fairy in his room. She is not the gentle figure of childhood legend, but a frightening and malevolent presence. As Sam grows from a boy to a teenager he and his friends seem like any normal group of boys. They roam wild around the outskirts of their car factory city having fun, daring adults to challenge their freedom. But Sam continues to be visited by the fairy. Is the fairy real or is she just some part of his tortured imagination and if she is, how far is she to blame for the terrible events that are to follow? Contains a 3,000-word Afterword by the author.

Sam and his friends are like any gang of normal young boys. Roaming wild around the outskirts of their car-factory town. Daring adults to challenge their freedom.Until the day Sam wakes to find the Tooth Fairy sitting on the edge of his bed. Not the benign figure of childhood myth, but an enigmatic presence that both torments and seduces him, changing his life forever.Is she real or just a figment of his turbulent imagination? All Sam knows, as he painfully grows from childhood to adolescence, is that she is never very far away...

‘A deft canny novel about growing up, cunningly disguised as a highly readable fairy story: a modern parable of loss and maturity’ Iain M. Banks A story about a boy growing up in England in the 1960s - with one singular difference: He's haunted by a demonic Tooth Fairy that only he can see, but whose malignant influence spills over onto his family and friends. When seven-year-old Sam Southall, loses a tooth, he's visited that night by a sinister, rank-smelling, foul-mouthed, mercurial Tooth Fairy. Slowly, The Tooth Fairy teaches Sam to make mischief at school, then insists that Sam have his friend Terry sleep over. That same night, Terry's father shoots his wife, his other children, and himself . . .