Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal.

Every summer Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds. But this summer, no one arrives to take them home.

Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they've been abandoned - cold, starving and clinging to life, in the grip of a murderous ocean. How will they survive?

'Brilliant, beautiful...as unpredictable as the sea itself' Philip Reeve, author of The Mortal Engines

'This is the best book I've read this year. Extraordinary' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink and Stars

Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal, 2018

About the Author
Geraldine McCaughrean is one of today's most successful and highly regarded children's authors. She has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal twice: first in 1988 with A Pack of Lies and again in 2018 with Where the World Ends. She's won the IBW Book Award 2018, the Whitbread Children's Book Award three times, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Smarties Bronze Award four times, the prestigious U.S. Printz Award and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award. Geraldine lives in Berkshire with her husband John and the lingering shades of all those characters she has invented in her books.

Reviews
It's a rare book that can transport us back into the rapture of childhood reading, but this is one. * The Guardian *
Harshly beautiful, and stark with near-despair, this is an unsettling, deeply original historical novel. * The Guardian *
McCaughrean writes extraordinary books: emotionally thunderous stories that evoke place and atmosphere with uncommon vigour, and are expressed with exhilarating precision of language... * The Sunday Times *
Everything Geraldine McCaughrean touches turns to gold. * The Sunday Times *
An awe-inspiring writer. * Sunday Telegraph *


Awards
Winner of The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018 and Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) Book Awards 2018. Short-listed for St Helens Schools Library Service Book Awards 2018 and Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2018 and Hillingdon Secondary Book of the Year 2018 and St Helens Schools Library Service Book Awards 2019. Long-listed for The UKLA Book Awards 2018 and Lancashire Book of the Year Award 2018.



Book Information
ISBN 9781474943437
Author Geraldine Mccaughrean
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Usborne Publishing Ltd
Publisher Usborne Publishing Ltd
Weight(grams) 280g
Dimensions(mm) 199mm * 139mm * 23mm