Where the World Ends
Published on 8. February 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-4749-4343-7 (ISBN)
Description
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
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
Reviews / Votes
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 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 12 to 16 years
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
278 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4749-4343-7 (9781474943437)
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Geraldine McCaughrean
Where the World Ends
E-Book
02/2018
Usborne Publishing Ltd
€4.99
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Previous edition
Geraldine McCaughrean
Where the World Ends
Book
05/2017
Usborne Publishing Ltd
€32.39
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Person
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.