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It all began when a very strange man gave him a letter from his parents, whom he was sure were dead. Toby ¿ his full name was Tobyas Thorsen ¿ was thirteen years old, and not even in a dream had he thought that his foster-parents Hannes and Irmchen could have been part of a plot against him.
Did they really want to give him shortly before his fourteenth birthday to a secretive stranger?
He only just escaped from the planned kidnapping. During the adventurous flight which followed he got to know Tini, a girl of the same age, who deciphered for him a secret message containing the words ¿Lule¿s End¿. In this way he reached Verbola, a land behind the Thought Horizon of human beings.
After he had made friends with some of the Timers who lived there, both Toby and Tini discovered that ¿Lule¿s End¿ stood for the last day of the month of ¿Elul¿ in the Jewish calendar. They soon realised that only a few days were left for them to free Toby¿s parents and prevent a disastrous attack on Verbolä
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Benjamin Paul Iddings was born on 23 January 1952 in a small town in Lower Saxony (Germany). He has been married for 38 years. He has two grown-up children, and lives in Brunswick. He is an enthusiastic grandfather.
The author has written various essays, theatre texts and biographical sketches. Among these are "Never Be Fat Again - Goodbye to 75 Kilograms", and the novel "The Other Side of Anger." His first novel for adolescents is "Toby Thorsen and Lulu's End."
Iddings has been the editor of numerous TV magazines, he is the founder and chairman of a benevolent society, as well as of the society of writers, the "Edition Scriptorum" in Brunswick.
