The Book of Almost Anything

At first glance, Christopher Muir appears to be just like any other of his peers: a teenager struggling to fit in at his new school, Oakwood Institute in the small village of Ferncross, just outside Leicester. But this charming and sensitive blue-eyed, brown-haired boy has another story: he lost his confidence and developed a stutter when his mother, Margaret Muir, a teacher at the local primary school, died suddenly in strange circumstances. This sent shock waves through the village of Ferncross.