The Wild Way Home

When Charlie's longed-for brother is born with a serious heart condition, Charlie's world is turned upside down. Upset and afraid, Charlie flees the hospital and makes for the ancient forest on the edge of town. There Charlie finds a boy floating face-down in the stream, injured, but alive. But when Charlie sets off back to the hospital to fetch help, it seems the forest has changed. It's become a place as strange and wild as the boy dressed in deerskins. For Charlie has unwittingly fled into the Stone Age, with no way to help the boy or return to the present day. Or is there . ?What follows is a wild, big-hearted adventure as Charlie and the Stone Age boy set out together to find what they have lost - their courage, their hope, their family and their way home.Fans of Piers Torday, Geraldine McCaughrean and S of the Dump will love this wild, wise and heartfelt debut adventure.

About the author

Sophie Kirtley grew up in Northern Ireland, where she spent her childhood climbing on hay bales, rolling down sand-dunes and leaping the raw Atlantic waves. Nowadays she lives in Wiltshire with her husband, three children and their mini-menagerie of pets and wild things. Sophie has always loved stories: she has taught English, and has worked in a theatre, a bookshop and a tiny pub where folk tell fairytales by candlelight. Sophie is also a prize-winning published poet. This is Sophie's debut novel.

Report

The Wild Way Home echoes Skellig and Stig of the Dump, with a bold, readable charm entirely its own ... Full of peril, sadness and wild joy, it's a timeslip adventure with a difference. Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Sophie Kirtley
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 11
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781526616289
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-1628-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), JUVENILE FICTION / Family / New Baby, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / Prehistory, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction, Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Interest age: from c 9 years, JUVENILE FICTION / Science Fiction / Time Travel, Dinosaurs & prehistoric world (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage general interest: Time travel, Stone Age: Mesolithic period, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories