Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal.
Every 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?
The Carnegie medal winning novel is set in 1727 on St Kilda – and on a rock stac in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean where a group of boys and their leader find themselves abandoned to the elements. It is a gripping survival story which reeled me in from the first sentence: ‘His mother gave him a new pair of socks, a puffin to eat on the voyage and a kiss on the cheek.’
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