“Even though my head was patched up and healing itself underneath the special absorbable bone plates, I still had to stay in hospital for another week so that they could keep an eye on me and make sure that I was getting the proper amount of rest and protein.
While he mostly recovers, the accident leaves him with recurrent epilepsy, a condition that he learns to control in time with the help of his neurologist Dr Enderby and disciplined meditation every morning – Alex is the kind of kid that sees a problem, works out a solution and follows through see, unusual but you love every strange, weird moment, trust me – but which defines his life in a number of key ways, not least the fact that it makes his tarot card-reading mum, who runs a New Age shop in Glastonbury, even more clingy than before. Struck by a 2kg meteorite at the age of 10 when it comes hurtling, rather destructively, through the bathroom roof of the home he shares with his mother Rowena – who herself is the queen of idiosyncratic unusualness – Alex finds himself not simply missing an intact skull and some of his hair, but the subject of media fame, even in the non-viral days of 2004.
A very quirky guy.īut then that’s what makes the protagonist of The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence such an endearing, affecting delight. (cover image courtesy Hachette Australia)Īlex Woods is a quirky guy.
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