Edition:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780571240524
Published:
04.02.2010
No of pages:
224
Other Editions: Paperback
The Island at the End of the World
Sam Taylor
Through the eyes of eight-year-old Finn we find ourselves on a small island, surrounded by nothing but sea. Finn lives here with his Pa, his elder sister Alice and his younger sister Daisy, and has no memory of any world but this one. All he knows of the past comes from the songs and stories of his father, which tell of the great flood that drowned all the other inhabitants of the earth, a deluge their family survived thanks to the ark in which they now live ...
Set in the near future, told from three different viewpoints and written in extraordinary prose
,
The Island at the End of the World
is an original, moving exploration of family love, truth and lies, and how strange and frightening it can feel for a child to discover the adult world.
Tags
Categorised as:
Fiction
Sub-categories:
General Fiction
Genres & Themes:
Recollection;
Dystopia;
Secrets;
Madness;
Childhood;
Strangers
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