British YA novel, science fiction, parallel universe/alternate world, 1970s
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1Piffany
Hi, I’m trying to track down a book I read in the mid-1980s. I believe it was published in the 1970s or maybe the early 1980s.
It is set in a city in Britain. The protagonist and narrator is a teenage boy whose name I can’t remember. He finds himself all alone in a parallel version of his home city where everything is greyed-out and doesn’t feel real. I think he meets a girl there who is real/colourful like him, and at one point he spots a rosebud that is red but then goes grey. He has a tape recorder in his pocket, which is an important plot point later. It’s a pretty short book.
As best I recall, the cover had a scaled hand gripping the Earth.
I was reading authors like John Christopher, Nicholas Fisk and Robert Westall at the time, but it doesn’t seem to be anything they wrote.
Grateful for any help. I’ve searched around a lot online and had no luck.
It is set in a city in Britain. The protagonist and narrator is a teenage boy whose name I can’t remember. He finds himself all alone in a parallel version of his home city where everything is greyed-out and doesn’t feel real. I think he meets a girl there who is real/colourful like him, and at one point he spots a rosebud that is red but then goes grey. He has a tape recorder in his pocket, which is an important plot point later. It’s a pretty short book.
As best I recall, the cover had a scaled hand gripping the Earth.
I was reading authors like John Christopher, Nicholas Fisk and Robert Westall at the time, but it doesn’t seem to be anything they wrote.
Grateful for any help. I’ve searched around a lot online and had no luck.
2MissSquish
Displaced Person by Lee Harding.
