Island At The End Of Everything

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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

‘Beautiful’ FRANCES HARDINGE

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