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Book SynopsisEvery summer Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds. But this summer, no one arrives to take them home. Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they've been abandoned - cold, starving and clinging to life, in the grip of a murderous ocean. How will they survive?
Trade ReviewIt's a rare book that can transport us back into the rapture of childhood reading, but this is one. * The Guardian *
Harshly beautiful, and stark with near-despair, this is an unsettling, deeply original historical novel. * The Guardian *
McCaughrean writes extraordinary books: emotionally thunderous stories that evoke place and atmosphere with uncommon vigour, and are expressed with exhilarating precision of language... * The Sunday Times *
Everything Geraldine McCaughrean touches turns to gold. * The Sunday Times *
An awe-inspiring writer. * Sunday Telegraph *
