Really? Wow! I hadn't expected to come across someone else on DW who had read that book as well. I read that one so many times as a child. It was definitely a favourite. I like the comparison with Boromir!

I called it angst because the story is very sad when you think about it. The tone is reasonably lighthearted, but the story is about two children dying. One from an accident and the other, his brother, from a terminal illness shortly afterwards. Can you imagine how devastated their parents must be? I know they don't even appear in the story, but I can't help feeling sorry for them anyway.