Maggot Moon is set in a dystopian society- a 1950s England where the race to be first to the moon is all important to the ruling regime. It is a harsh society where people regularly disappear and those who are different are treated at best with disdain, more often with violence. The hero of the book -Standish Treadwell has different coloured eyes AND is dyslexic and so is bullied mercileesly at school until a new boy -Hector- befriends him. But it is not long before Hector disappears. Standish and his grandfather decide that they will take a stand against the harsh regime.
Maggot moon is an excellent book.The chapters are short and the pace fast-moving. Although the book is touching it is full of black humour and pulls no punches in its depiction of the harsh reality of the regime and the Motherland. An imaginative and compelling book.
