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Set on a hidden island at the intersection of several busy highways, this is an original and action-packed survival adventure about trust, friendship, resilience and what really makes a home.

Hidden at the intersection of several busy highways behind the trees and scrubby undergrowth is an island, full of secrets…

Pez has lived there for a while now, enjoying the solitude. She has a vegetable patch, a routine, her own way of doing things and a condor, who may be outstaying his welcome.

Runaway brothers, Riley and Grayson call the island home too. They keep their distance from Pez and spend precarious days trying to survive, still relying on the man-made world which speeds around them.

Then Gil arrives, with his hagstone and a dream of happy families, and everything changes. The four of them find a way of living and believe they might stay on the island forever. But all too soon they witness something they should never have seen and they’re in deadly danger…

Tania Unsworth constantly raises the stakes to write about trust, friendship, resilience and what really makes a home in this original, tense and action-packed survival adventure.

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If you’ve ever wondered what could live in the untamed expanses beside and between motorways, this story will catch your imagination.

It is set on an island cut off from the rest of humanity by the intersections of motorways, to which four children have escaped: Gil has escaped from his social worker as she tries to find him a forever foster home; brothers Riley and Grayson have run away from their abusive father; and Pez has escaped from a star-worshipping cult that estranged her from her family.

All four children have their issues and anxieties, but are happy on ‘Nowhere Island’ (as they have named it) and manage a relatively stable existence, living off supplies stolen from cars that stop at the layby that borders the edge of their domain. However, Riley is determined to push his luck at the layby and not only witnesses something frightening but also makes a dangerous decision that puts their way of life under imminent threat.

This was a very enjoyable read as it is well written and eminently plausible, with engaging characters.

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