Island at the End of Everything

From the author of the bestselling THE GIRL OF INK &STARS comes a moving, enthralling and heartbreaking tale of findingyour way home ...WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONYOUNG QUILLS AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOKAWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE BLUE PETERBOOK AWARD'The Island at the End of Everything is such a fiercelykind and generous book, and so finely-wrought and so fullof light ... brilliant.' KATHERINE RUNDELL'Kiran Millwood Hargrave is the new big gun in children’sfiction ... This is an enchanting book by a writer who fullydeserves the fuss that’s being made of her.' TELEGRAPH'Beautiful' 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 maliciousgovernment official Mr Zamora changes her world forever: islandersuntouched by sickness are forced to leave.Banished across the sea, she's desperate to return, and findsa strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they leadher home before it's too late? The fourth children’s novel by Times numberone bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave, winner of theWaterstones Children’s Book Prize and the British Book AwardsChildren’s Book of the YearFrom the author of A Secret of Birds & Bone,The Way Past Winter, Julia and the Shark andThe Mercies – chosen for the Richard & JudyBook Club An irresistibly poetic, bittersweet and heartbreakingtale of a girl finding her way back to her mother