This is the story of poor Gilly Bodkin's ghost, forced to roam the paths where he died until he can taste the sweet he lost his life trying to get.
Gilly Bodkin met a terrible accident in 1690 while searching for a sweetmeat. The poor boy's ghost is left to wander woods and highways searching for that elusive sweet that he lost his life trying to taste. This is his sad story.
Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Seven Strange and Ghostly Tales.
Brian Jacques was born and bred in Liverpool. At the age of fifteen he went to sea and travelled the world. He worked as a stand-up comedian and playwright and hosted his own programme, Jakestown, on Radio Merseyside. His bestselling Redwall books have captured readers all over the world and won universal praise. He died in 2011.
