Acclaimed author Kate Thompson won both the Guardian Children's Book Prize and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award for this enchanting novel. Irish teenager J.J. Liddy wishes he could provide his mother with her true birthday desire-the gift of more time. Everything seems to happen so fast in the modern world. Before long, J.J. finds himself in the land of the ever young, where the faeries teach him some amazing truths. "Thompson's nifty plotting mines a rich vein of Irish faerie lore and magic for thismeditation on the losses that modernization brings."-Publishers Weekly