The Island at the End of Everything

Ami lives on Culion, where some of the inhabitants - including
her mother - have leprosy. She loves her home - but then islanders
untouched by sickness are forced to leave. Desperate to return,
Ami finds a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies.
Can they lead her home before it's too late?

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From the author of the bestselling THE GIRL OF INK &
STARS comes a moving, enthralling and heartbreaking tale of finding
your way home ...

WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
YOUNG QUILLS AWARD


SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK
AWARD


SHORTLISTED FOR THE BLUE PETER
BOOK AWARD


'The Island at the End of Everything is such a fiercely
kind and generous book, and so finely-wrought and so full
of light ... brilliant.' KATHERINE RUNDELL



'Kiran Millwood Hargrave is the new big gun in children’s
fiction ... This is an enchanting book by a writer who fully
deserves the fuss that’s being made of her.' TELEGRAPH



'Beautiful' FRANCES HARDINGE


Amihan lives on Culion Island, where some of the inhabitants –
including her mother – have leprosy.


Ami loves her home – with its blue seas and lush forests,
Culion is all she has ever known. But the arrival of malicious
government official Mr Zamora changes her world forever: islanders
untouched by sickness are forced to leave.


Banished across the sea, she's desperate to return, and finds
a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead
her home before it's too late?





The fourth children’s novel by Times number
one bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave, winner of the
Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and the British Book Awards
Children’s Book of the Year

From the author of A Secret of Birds & Bone,
The Way Past Winter, Julia and the Shark and
The Mercies – chosen for the Richard & Judy
Book Club

An irresistibly poetic, bittersweet and heartbreaking
tale of a girl finding her way back to her mother