Seeing The Ninth Life of Louis Drax on screen is like meeting an eerie stranger
Fourteen years after my kid in a coma first appeared at the kitchen table, the film – starring Jamie Dornan, Sarah Gadon and Aaron Paul – is to appear at last
At 12 and seven my sons were pyromaniacs, puzzle solvers, pond-life specialists and keepers of small, doomed pets. One day in 2002, at the kitchen table that doubled as my writing desk, a third boy appeared. Nine-year-old Louis Drax spoke just like my sons.
