Oskar is the ultimate teenage loner. He's been living on the streets since he was a kid, he hates being touched and his eyes are always itchy from chronic conjunctivitis. To perk himself up, he paints the misery of mankind. After all, there's so much of that about... One day during a not-so-routine eye test, Oskar's bleak perspective is blown apart when he tries on a pair of very unusual lenses. The world he glimpses is filled with love, light and wonder and he is furious. But those lenses have opened his inner eye and much against his darker nature, Oskar's perception and behaviour begin to change in ways that he could never, ever have imagined. AUTHOR: Hattie Holden Edmonds has held down a variety of jobs ranging from junior assistant on Separates in Clements (of Watford) department store to chief plugger-in of cables in a Berlin recording studio. For ten years she was the London correspondent for the German pop magazine, Bravo, interviewing all sorts of musical luminaries from Meatloaf and Metalica to Mariah Carey.
