Jeremy de quidt biography

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Jeremy de Quidt is the author of the wonderful The Feathered Man (released today!) and The Toymaker, both dark books aimed at a younger audience but wholly.
Jeremy de Quidt was born in London but grew up in Essex, and has lived at various times in London again, Norwich, Oxford and near Wells in Somerset.

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The Feathered Man by Jeremy de Quidt

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In a German town, long ago, lives a tooth-puller's boy called Klaus. It isn't Klaus's fault that he sees his master steal a diamond from the mouth of a dead man in Frau Drecht's lodging house, or that Frau Drecht and her murderous son want it for themselves.

He has nothing to do with the Jesuit priest and his Aztec companion who turn up out of the blue looking for it, or the Professor of Anatomy who takes such a strange interest in it. No, Klaus doesn't want any trouble.

But when he finds himself with the diamond in his pocket, things really can't get much worse - that is, until the feathered man appears. Then they become a matter of life… and death.

You may have already heard of Jeremy de Quidt due to his first offering The Toymaker, or his name may be entirely new to you. However, regardless of whether you have or have not already read a de Quidt offering my message to you would be the same, that you simply have to read this book.

It has been a very long time since I have read something that fro

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Jeremy de Quidt is the author of the wonderful The Feathered Man (released today!) and The Toymaker, both dark books aimed at a younger audience but wholly suitable for adults too. This interview is part of The Feathered Man blog tour and arranged by Random House Children’s Publishers UK.

Please welcome Jeremy de Quidt to the blog!

What gave you the inspiration for The Feathered Man?

A real feathered man – leastways a life-sized wire and feather sculpture of one. A friend of ours made it years ago when she was at college, and trying to make more room in her house gave it to my daughter Alice. Alice hung it on her bedroom wall. I’d see it in the dark each night when I went in to say ‘goodnight.’ It looked so other worldly. I’d sit on the edge of her bed and think to myself ‘there’s a story there.’ It all became wound up with my first childhood recollections of seeing something dead and wondering where the thing that had made it alive had actually gone.

As a reader, I find certain characters stay with me (as I’m sure a few characters from The Feathered Man, espec