Winner of the 2018 Carnegie Medal! New from Michael L. Printz Award winner Geraldine McCaughrean comes an extraordinary story of eight boys stranded on a rock in the middle of the sea,left to fight for their survival. Every time a lad went fowling on the stacshe came home less of a boy and more of a man. If he went home at allthat is. Every summer Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds. But this summerno one arrives to take them home. Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why theyΓÇÖve been abandonedΓÇöcoldstarving and clinging to lifein the grip of a murderous ocean. How will they survive such a forsaken place of stone and sea? This is an extraordinary story of fortitudeendurancetragedy and survivalset against an unforgettable backdrop of savage beauty.