A wild August torrent sweeps Abel Mouse away from home, family, and familiar world to an uninhabited island where, between efforts to return home, he makes new discoveries about himself and the world.
- ISBN10 0571120806
- ISBN13 9780571120802
- Publish Date 31 December 1987 (first published 1 August 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 March 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Language English