`When the next baby is dropped, I will leave to make room for him. He will take my place.'
Abandoned at birth, the Brothers of the Ikkuma Pit know no mothers. They fend for themselves, each training their Little Brother to survive - until they grow into men and it's time for their Leaving Day.
No boy knows what's beyond the forest.
No Brother who left has ever come back.
Until now . . .
`An imaginative world with the glint of originality . . . richly conceived' Sunday Times
`The writing [is] sharp and funny, the boys [are] an arresting mixture of toughness and tenderness' Guardian
- ISBN10 1770863087
- ISBN13 9781770863088
- Publish Date 1 September 2013 (first published 2 May 2013)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 July 2021
- Imprint Cormorant Books
- Edition None ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 240
- Language English