Kiran Millwood Hargrave The Island At End Of Everything 2017 Chicken House 2017

Synopsis

<p> </p> From the author of the bestselling THE GIRL OF INK & STARS comes a moving, enthralling and heartbreaking tale of finding your way home ...<br> <p>WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION YOUNG QUILLS AWARD</p> <p>SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD</p> <p>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD</p> <p>'The Island at the End of Everythingis such a fiercely kind and generous book, and so finely-wrought and so full of light ... brilliant.'KATHERINE RUNDELL</p> <p>'Kiran Millwood Hargrave is the new big gun in children's fiction ... This is an enchanting book by a writer who fully deserves the fuss that's being made of her.' TELEGRAPH<br></p> <p>'Beautiful'FRANCES HARDINGE</p> <p>Amihan lives on Culion Island, where some of the inhabitants - including her mother - have leprosy.</p> <p>Ami loves her home - with its blue seas and lush forests, Culion is all she has ever known. But the arrival of malicious government official Mr Zamora changes her world forever: islanders untouched by sickness are forced to leave.</p> <p>Banished across the sea, she's desperate to return, and finds a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead her home before it's too late?</p> <ul> <li>The fourth children's novel by Timesnumber one bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave, winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year</li> <li>From the author of A Secret of Birds & Bone, The Way Past Winter, Julia and the Sharkand The Mercies- chosen for the Richard & Judy Book Club</li> <li>An irresistibly poetic, bittersweet and heartbreaking tale of a girl finding her way back to her mother</li> </ul>