The Island at the End of Everything
Kshs 900.00
From the author of the bestselling THE GIRL OF INK & STARS comes a moving, enthralling and heartbreaking tale of finding your way home – shortlisted for the Costa Book Award and the BluePeter Book Award. ‘The Island at the End of Everything is such a fiercely kind and generous book, and so finely-wrought and so full of light … brilliant.’ KATHERINE RUNDELL’…
a beautiful, haunting tale of leprosy, lepidoptery and loyalty.’ FRANCES HARDINGEAmihan lives on Culion Island, where some of the inhabitants – including her mother – have leprosy. 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.
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?
- Classifications: Interest age: from c 10 years,
- Readership:Children Juvenile
- Format: Paperback softback 256 pages
ISBN : 9781910002766
Published : 4 May 2017
Author : Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Main Material : Paperback softback
Publisher : Chicken House Ltd
Size : 194 x 141 x 17 (mm)
Weight : 182g
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