The Boy Lost in the Maze

Author: Coelho, Joseph

Poetry (Children's / Teenage)

Published on 19 June 2025 by Otter-Barry Books in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 320 pages, Illustrations, black and white
128 x 198 x 26 | 284g

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In this highly acclaimed and prize-winning verse novel, Joseph Coelho brilliantly blends Greek myth with a 21st century quest.  In Ancient Greece Theseus makes a dangerous and courageous journey to find his father, finally meeting the Minotaur in the Labyrinth. While Theo, a modern-day teenage boy, finds himself on a maze-like quest to find his own father. Each story tells of a boy becoming a man and discovering what true manhood really means.

The path to self-discovery takes Theo through ‘those thin spaces where myth, magic and reality combine’. Doubts, difficulties and dangers must be faced as Theo discovers the man he will become.