Notes

Why is Savo Sound known as Iron Bottom Sound? Paddy, a New Zealand schoolboy, becomes so obsessed with a book about the wrecks of warships sunk in World War Two battles at Guadalcanal that he is lucky not to be killed in a traffic accident. His parents ban him from reading the book. But Paddy can still hear the voices of men who died during the Battle of Savo Island, one of the battles depicted in the book. He is horrified and fascinated; whose voices are they and why are they reaching out to him? New Zealand author