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Winner of the Older Fiction category of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and of the Branford Boase Award
______'An extraordinary dystopian novel... compelling and original' Sunday Times, Book of the Year
'One of the most vivid, tough, bold and gripping books I've read in a long time' Katherine Rundell, author of Impossible Creatures
'A dazzling fable of oppression and hope' Financial Times, Books of the Year
_____Life in Bearmouth is one of hard labour, the sunlit world above the mine a distant memory. Reward will come in the next life with the benevolence of the Mayker.
Newt accepts everything - that is, until the mysterious Devlin arrives. Suddenly, Newt starts to look at Bearmouth with a fresh perspective, questioning the system, and setting in motion a chain of events that could destroy their entire world.
