Format: Paperback / softback
Published By: Pushkin Children's Books
Date of Publication: 10/10/24
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781782695370
Dimensions in mm: 197 x 129 x 26
Description:
Winner of the Older Fiction category of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and of the Branford Boase Award
______'An extraordinary dystopian novel... compelling and original' Sunday Times, Book of the Year
'One of the most vivid, tough, bold and gripping books I've read in a long time' Katherine Rundell, author of Impossible Creatures
'A dazzling fable of oppression and hope' Financial Times, Books of the Year
_____Life in Bearmouth is one of hard labour, the sunlit world above the mine a distant memory. Reward will come in the next life with the benevolence of the Mayker.
Newt accepts everything - that is, until the mysterious Devlin arrives. Suddenly, Newt starts to look at Bearmouth with a fresh perspective, questioning the system, and setting in motion a chain of events that could destroy their entire world.