Michael Morpurgo's Kingdom of Kensuke

I disappeared the night before my twelfth birthday, July 28, 1988. Before now I could not tell this amazing story, and here I am finally telling it - the real story. Kensuke had made me promise to say nothing, nothing at all, for at least ten years. That was almost the last thing he said to me, and as long as I promised him, I was forced to live in a lie, and I was able to conceal and maintain my lie for a while, but more than ten years have now passed, during which I finished studying at school and university, and had the necessary time. To think. Thus, my family and friends who I have deceived for a long time have the right to tell them the truth about my long disappearance, and how I lived to be able to return from the world of the dead.