Modern Classics Chocky (Penguin Modern Classics)

Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence - Chocky - causes Matthew to ask difficult questions and say startling things: he speaks of complex mathematics and mocks human progress. Then, when Matthew does something incredible, it seems there is more than the imaginary about Chocky. Which is when others become interested and ask questions of their own: who is Chocky? And what could it want with an eleven-year-old boy? Matthew's parents are worried. At eleven, he's much too old to have an imaginary friend, yet they find him talking to and arguing with a presence that even he admits is not physically there. This presence, Chocky, makes Matthew ask difficult questions and say startling things. Then, when he does something incredible, it seems Cocky is more than imaginary. But who is Chocky? And what could it want with an eleven-year-old boy? Matthew introduces his family to his imaginary friend, a creature called Chocky, who is full of questions about space travel and gravity fields that are unlike any an 11 year-old boy would ever think of. So when Chocky starts causing Matthew a great deal of distress, his parents call in the professionals