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The Island at the End of Everything (Paperback)
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The Island at the End of Everything (Paperback)
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List price R244
Loot Price R184
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From the author of the bestselling THE GIRL OF INK & STARS
comes a moving, enthralling and heartbreaking tale of finding your
way home ... WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION YOUNG QUILLS
AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BLUE
PETER 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 '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 'A lyrical, magical book' METRO 'An instant
classic' BOOKTRUST Amihan 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? The
fourth children's novel by Times number 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 From
the author of A Secret of Birds & Bone, The Way Past Winter,
Julia and the Shark and The Mercies - chosen for the Richard &
Judy Book Club An irresistibly poetic, bittersweet and
heartbreaking tale of a girl finding her way back to her mother
MORE PRAISE FOR THE ISLAND AT THE END OF EVERYTHING: 'A gripping
adventure' GUARDIAN 'A beautiful, haunting tale of leprosy,
lepidoptery and loyalty' FRANCES HARDINGE 'Exquisite' EMMA CARROLL
'Truly a stunning book' PETER BUNZL 'A breathtaking read' SALLY
GARDNER
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