Hidden across England and Scotland live six old Book Eater families. The last of their lines, they subsist on a diet of stories and legends. When Devon Fairweather's second child is born a dreaded Mind Eater - a perversion of her own kind, who consumes not stories but the minds and souls of humans - she flees before he can be turned into a weapon for the family... or worse. Living among humans and finding prey for her son, Devon seeks a cure for his hunger... For fans of Neil Gaiman and Susanna Clarke.