（外文电子版资料）Bawden, Nina - Off The Road.docVIP

SS( AIli (xv/v f ) ~0012 OFF THE ROAD Nina Bawden JLASGOW ~ ~ JI ~ Pp~3~ LiBRARY ~ To I~*-~~ I I , STOCK Galaxy CHIVERS PRESS BATH OFF THE ROAD The date is 12 June 2040 and Gandy, Toms grandfather, is due to be installed in Nostalgia Block 95 where he will be looked after forever. Gandy, however, has other plans for his future. When he slips through a door leading off the road and beyond the Wall, Tom cannot resist following him, despite the warnings from school about the barbaric Outside. The Wild Wood is a new and confusing experience for Tom. He is astounded to learn that on the outside the words brother and sister are not forbidden and that he is in fact part of a large, extended family. While Gandy quickly settles back into the way of life he has been denied in Urb Seven, Tom realise(z that he has a lot to learn about his new relatives... First published 1998 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd This Large Print edition published by Chivers Press by arrangement with Penguin Books 2001 ISBN 0 7540 6172 8 Copyright C Nina Bawden 1998 The moral right of the author has been asserted. All rights reserved. I~riti~h Libr~iiy (~ataI()guing in PuhIic~Iti()n I)at~i av~IiI(IhIe B~wden, Nin~i Off the r()~d.-I~rge print cd. 1. F~nt~stic fiction 2. ChiIdren~ ~torie~ 3. L~rge type books I. Title 823.9141J ISBN O-754()-6i723-~ Printed ~nd bound in Cjre~t Brit~in by B()()KCRAFi; Midsorner Norton, Somerset For Jack Bawden-Bouche; [lie fii~[ of [lie JICW gen e~a don CHAPTER ONE Now or never... They were halfway to the Memory Theme Park when Gandy escaped. Not that Tom thought escaped to begin with. More like flipped his lid. Lost his marbles. They had stopped at the Electricity Supply Station to recharge the car and Gandy had gone to the Mens to pee. Pump ship was what he called it, an expression Tom had thought brilliantly funny when he had been younger. Now he was eleven, it just seemed the