The Island at the End of Everything

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Kiran Millwood Hargrave

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Chicken House Ltd

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Publisher	Chicken House Ltd
Publication Year	2017
ISBN-13	9789352755783
ISBN-10	9352755782
Binding	Paperback
Number of Pages	256 Pages
Language	(English)
Dimensions (Cms)	25.4X20.3X4.7
Weight (grms)	260
Subject	General

Shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award 2017, and the Blue Peter Award 2017. Children’s Book of the Week in The Sunday Times, The Observer, and The Telegraph, Editor’s Choice in The Bookseller.Ami lives with her mother on an island where the sea is as blue as the sky. It’s all she knows and loves, but the arrival of malicious government official Mr Zamora changes her world forever: her island is to be made into a colony for lepers. Taken from her mother and banished across the sea, Ami faces an uncertain future in an orphanage. There she meets a honey-eyed girl named for butterflies, and together they discover a secret that will lead her on an adventure home. Ami must go back to the island of no return, but will she make it in time?

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Kiran Millwood Hargrave is a poet and novelist, and recently graduated from Oxford Universityâ€™s Creative Writing MA with Distinction. Kirans debut novel The Cartographers Daughter, a middle grade magical realist adventure story, will be published by Chicken House Books/Scholastic (UK), and Knopf/Random House (US) next year. She is represented by Hellie Ogden (UK) and Kirby Kim (US) at Janklow & Nesbit. Her poetry publications include a pamphlet, Scavengers (British Shakespeare Association: 2011), and three collections: Last March (Pindrop Press: 2012), wide-shining (79 rat press: 2013), and Splitfish (Gatehouse Press: 2013). Kiran was born in London in 1990, and now lives in Oxford with her mad artist boyfriend and mad writer friends.