|summary=It is 1959, and in an alternative Britain the Motherland has won the war. For Standish life is brutal and lonely, until Hector and his parents come to live next door. And then, against the backdrop of man's first steps on the moon, his new friends disappear, dragged away as so many have been before them. Standish is then faced with a dilemma: what is truly important to him?
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'''Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013'''
There are certain books that you know, right from the first pages, are destined to be classics. There is something about the phrasing, about the concept and about the main character which chime so perfectly together that they cannot fail to move you, to open a window in your world and show you another, deeper truth. Such a book is ''Maggot Moon''.