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''Ducks are cool. Whatever happens, whatever gets thrown at them, they just carry on, their little legs paddling. Unfazed. They always look like they're smiling.''
Will almost wishes he could ''be'' a duck. He has precious little to smile about. Sitting watching those ducks go about their business so blithely by the pond, he can't help but remember his mother who committed suicide there some years ago, when Will was just a tiny lad. It's been difficult to move on. Will misses his mother horribly. He's not doing so well at school and he doesn't have many friends - well, none, actually, since he fell out with Claire. His father has retreated into grief and an ever-closer allegiance with the new right-wing political party that wants to send all the immigrants home. And if that weren't enough, Will is haunted by strange people with dead eyes. They follow him everywhere, these freaks, and Will can't be sure if they're real, or - even worse - they're a symptom of the kind of mental instability that lost him his mother in the first place.
But then the freaks make contact. And Will doesn't like what they have to say at all - but he can't deny them. Deep down, he knows he's a Returner. The half-memories, the dreams, the strange connection to history - they can't all be denied. But can Will deny his destiny? Can he shape the future? And can he save an innocent boy from a terrible fate?
