When I was ten, I got given a discarded library book. Unusually for me, I can’t remember its title or author. Sometime in the 1990s, my mum threw it out. I would dearly love to find it again; I think about it at least once a week.
The plot went something like this: a young tourist (possibly Australian or English) goes to a small town (possibly in Italy or Greece). He starts having strange feelings and strange memories. He is drawn to a particular grave in the cemetery. The date of death of the man buried there is his own date of birth. He is then drawn to a house. An old woman lives there. He tells the woman that she is his mother. The woman doesn’t believe him; her son has been dead for years. He says that when he was a boy growing up in this house, he hid something he stole behind a loose brick. He goes to the brick, removes it and finds the object (whatever it is) and the woman bursts into tears.
I don’t remember the rest. There is something about a motorbike. Perhaps he died in a motorbike accident?
The cover has a skull on it? (Maybe)
It’s a small paperback, at most eighty pages. It was written for teenagers? Children?
Do you know what it’s called? Please, please put me out of my wondering.
I’ve just posted this to Book Sleuth – see what happens.
http://forums.abebooks.com/n/mb/listsf.asp?webtag=abesleuthcom&gfc=1&sts=12%2F21%2F2007+2%3A45%3A11+AM
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