...when I was fifteen, an extraordinary and terrible thing happened, and there was only a before and after. Jacob Portman thinks nothing extraordinary will ever happen to him, growing up in sleepy backwater Florida town. The most interesting things in his life surround his beloved grandfather Abraham, an inveterate storyteller with all manner of unbelievable tales from his childhood. The Abraham is violently killed and Jacob's life is plunged into grief and doubt. He is left with his grandfather's unique collection of black and white photographs and the stories Abraham bequeathed to Jacob, stories that he can't seem to put out of his mind.
As Jacob's grief compels him towards an isolated Welsh Island, he finds himself confronted with an ever deepening mystery around the ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, the place Abraham grew up. As Jacob wanders the crumbling corridors and dust-soaked rooms, he realises that everything, including himself, may be slipping out of place. As he encounters the strange and wonderful children his grandfather was raised with, Jacob realises they all have extraordinary abilities( and spectacularly evocative names) and exist in a series of time loops, meaning that none of them I the age they seem.
Ransom Riggs grew up in Maryland and developed an early interest in collecting old, unusual photographs. His first novel, Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, grew out of wanting to create a story combining theses photographs with a love of uncanny, macabre storytelling.
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