The Island at the End of the World

A Novel

Penguin (Aug 25, 2009)

9780143116257

| Trade Paperback

224 pages | 127 x 200 mm | English

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Dewey 823.92

LC Classification PR6120.A954 .I75 2009

LC Control No. 2009014382

Genre

General Fiction

Subject

Brothers And Sisters - Fiction
Fathers And Sons - Fiction
Floods - Social Aspects - Fiction
Islands - Fiction
Isolation (Philosophy) - Fiction

Plot

A chilling post-apocalyptic tale of how far a father will go to protect his children'from the author of The Amnesiac In a world nearly destroyed by catastrophic floods, one family has been spared. Many years ago, as the waters rose, a father and his three children took to their ark and drifted to the safety of a small island. Life there is a quiet idyll of music and farming'and young Alice, Finn, and Daisy are grateful for their salvation'until the day a stranger swims ashore. A terrifyingly plausible adventure story, The Island at the End of the World is a mesmerizing novel from an exciting new writer.