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Book SynopsisWhen animals talk, it's time humans listened: Harlon has been raised to protect her younger siblings, twins Ash and Xeno, and their outlawed power of communicating with animals. But when the sinister Automators attack their mountain home they must flee for their lives. Xeno is kidnapped and Harlon and Ash are separated. In a thrilling and dangerous adventure they must each journey alone through the ice fields, forests and oceans of Rumyc to try to rescue each other and fulfil a mysterious promise about a lost island made to their mother. A stunning environmental epic with cover and chapter illustrations by award-winning illustrator, Jackie Morris.
Trade Review‘Glorious and visionary with epic adventures and beautiful characters. It balances the line between grief and wonder, hope and fear. I was chilled, heartbroken and felt reflected in it too, but the story, it is glorious and visionary with epic adventures and beautiful characters! I loved it so much.’ Dara McAnulty; ‘A passionate adventure, full of incident, intrigue, wildness and rage.’ Sunday Times Best Books for Children 2021, Nicolette Jones; ‘Storytelling on the most poetic scale – strange, bloody, grand and unforgettable.’ The Guardian; ‘A magnificent adventure story.’ The Scotsman; ‘Career-crowning … globe-spanning tale of high stakes and cross-species comradeship.’ Observer best children’s books of the year; 'A hyper-imaginative book, bringing to mind the complete works of Philip Pullman with their sprawling cast of animal familiars, Yan Martell’s Life of Pi with which it shares a tiger on a boat – although this one has "fur like fire and soot, whiskers like strands of white wire, green eyes like the aurora".’ Jon Gower, Nation Cymru
