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The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce Pub: Gollancz. 320 page paperback. Price: £ 9.99 (UK). ISBN: 1857983424. Check out website: www.orionbooks.co.uk
I first read this when it was originally published in 1996. Its brilliance has not dimmed.
They are just normal boys until Sam meets the Tooth Fairy. She's not a small winged being, but four feet tall with an attitude. Sam should not be able to see her but he does and that causes problems because she won't go away. She doesn't like it any more than Sam does. She might be Sam's nightmare but he is hers, so she causes him problems until Sam finds a way of sending her away permanently. This is not your typical horror story. It has a literary bent and had it been written by Amis, Barnes or any of the Hampstead coterie would have been acclaimed as a masterpiece, which it is. Joyce really gets to the heart of what is was like to be a boy in that period and the characterisation and narrative are really superb. Buy it! John Oram
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OTHER REVIEWS - September 2002
Other Reviews Minority Report by Philip K. Dick The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce The Science of Discworld II: The Globe by Terry Pratchett Twin Visions: The Magical Art Of Boris Vallejo And Julie Bell Hidden Empire: The Saga Of The Seven Suns by Kevin J. Anderson Chronicles of Carrick V: Orthe by Mary Gentle
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is the story of Sam and his mates, Clive and Terry, and their adventures
in childhood in the late fifties and growing up in the sixties,
which was the period when I grew up. 
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