Liz Jensen: Seeing The Ninth Life of Louis Drax on screen is like meeting an eerie stranger. Loved this my third book by Liz Jensen and one that's been on my shelf ages (why?) Couldn't put it down, loved the style of writing and the characters including little Louis

Liz Jensen: Seeing The Ninth Life of Louis Drax on screen is like meeting an eerie stranger. Loved this my third book by Liz Jensen and one that's been on my shelf ages (why?) Couldn't put it down, loved the style of writing and the characters including little Louis. You could see where it was going but it was still a great story.

Liz Jensen is the author of Egg Dancing (longlisted for the Orange Prize), Ark Baby (shortlisted for the Guardian . Stuff happens to me that shouldn’t happen, like going on a picnic where you drown

Liz Jensen is the author of Egg Dancing (longlisted for the Orange Prize), Ark Baby (shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize), The Paper Eater, War Crimes fo. Stuff happens to me that shouldn’t happen, like going on a picnic where you drown. Just ask my maman what it’s like being the mother of an accident-prone boy and she’ll tell you.

Nine-year-old Louis Drax, disturbed and accident-prone from birth, wanders away from a picnic site in the Auvergne. It's an idyllic spot, scented with wild thyme and made sleepy by the roar of the river in the local ravine, into which Louis falls and is washed up almost dead

Nine-year-old Louis Drax, disturbed and accident-prone from birth, wanders away from a picnic site in the Auvergne. It's an idyllic spot, scented with wild thyme and made sleepy by the roar of the river in the local ravine, into which Louis falls and is washed up almost dead. Comatose and puzzling, he exists in the puckers and fissures of the French medical system, and, more importantly, of his own injured brain, "hovering between four and five on the Glasgow Coma Scale".

The 9th Life of Louis Drax is a 2016 Canadian-American supernatural thriller film directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Jamie Dornan, Sarah Gadon, Aiden Longworth, Oliver Platt, Molly Parker, Julian Wadham, Jane McGregor, Barbara Hershey, and Aaron.

The 9th Life of Louis Drax is a 2016 Canadian-American supernatural thriller film directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Jamie Dornan, Sarah Gadon, Aiden Longworth, Oliver Platt, Molly Parker, Julian Wadham, Jane McGregor, Barbara Hershey, and Aaron Paul. It was written by Max Minghella based on Liz Jensen's best-selling novel of the same title. The film was released in the United States and United Kingdom on September 2, 2016, by Summit Premiere and Soda Pictures.

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax packs an irresistibly twisted wallop. Liz Jensen's critically acclaimed fiction spans numerous genres. Her most recent novel is The Uninvited. Jensen splits her time between London and Copenhagen.

Louis miraculously survives – but the family has been shattered. Louis' father has vanished, his mother is paralysed by shock, and Louis lies in a deep coma from which he may never emerge. In a clinic in Provence, Dr Pascal Dannachet tries to coax Louis back to consciousness. But the boy defies medical logic, startling Dannachet out of his safe preconceptions, and drawing him inexorably into the dark heart of Louis' buried world. Only Louis holds the key to the mystery surrounding his fall – and he can't communicate. Or can he? Thriller & Crime Fiction.

Stuff happens to me that shouldn’t happen, like going on a picnic where you drown. Just ask my maman what it’s like being the mother of an accident-prone boy and she’ll tell. No fun. You can’t sleep, wondering where it’s going to end. You see danger everywhere and you think, Got to protect him, got to protect him. But sometimes you can’t. Maman hated me before she loved me because of the first accident. The first accident was being born. It happened the same way as the emperor Julius Caesar. They stab the lady with a knife till her belly pops, and then they.

In Brief Nine-year-old Louis Drax lies in a coma in a hospital bed, re-living the events that led to his near-fatal fall .

In Brief Nine-year-old Louis Drax lies in a coma in a hospital bed, re-living the events that led to his near-fatal fall into a ravine. Despite being attracted to the boy's mother Natalie Drax, Louis' doctor, Pascal Dannachet, begins reluctantly to question her version of Louis' accident and the apparent culpability of her missing husband. In Detail In this taut psychological thriller Liz Jensen explores the many ways in which people can manipulate one another, from perverting the close bonds of a mother-son relationship to the exploitation of pity and sexual attraction. Louis is a deeply disturbed child to whom violence is commonplace.

Nine-year-old Louis Drax is so accident prone that he should be dead nine times over! He has continued to baffle doctors and scientists with his unfailing will to live, despite the accidents and mishaps that have plagued his young life. The story commences upon his ninth chance at life

Nine-year-old Louis Drax is so accident prone that he should be dead nine times over! He has continued to baffle doctors and scientists with his unfailing will to live, despite the accidents and mishaps that have plagued his young life. The story commences upon his ninth chance at life. During a family picnic, Louis falls down a cliff face and is submerged into a coma. The accident, which is shrouded in mystery, plagues his emotionally traumatised mother and the coma specialist, Dr Pascal Dannachet, who are attempting to coax him back to the land of the living.