Set in a world where plants talk, friendship is hard-wonand adventure is around the bend of every river ...'I could almost feel the river mist settling in my hair' SARAHDRIVER'Wild and imaginative storytelling' FLEUR HITCHCOCK'A very special story' JULIA GREENOrla has lived on her own since Ma died, with only her belovedgarden for company. When sickness comes and nature is blamed, Orlaknows she must find a cure.Armed with her mother's book of plants and remedies, she stealsaway on a river boat with two other stowaways, Idris and Ariana.Soon the trio must navigate the rapids of the Inkwater to a poisonousplace from which they may never return ... Fast-paced, thrilling storytelling, packed full of rusticadventure and peril  A wild rapids-ride of a story, suffused at every turnwith authentic details of the natural worldShortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2023A gorgeous gifty book for ages 9 and up: a flapped paperbackwith illustration by Marie-Alice Harel  'Fast-paced and highly original' GILL LEWIS'Wild and bewitching' NICOLA PENFOLD'A thrilling, beautiful, important book' NATASHAFARRANT

Set in a world where plants talk, friendship is hard-wonand adventure is around the bend of every river ...'I could almost feel the river mist settling in my hair' SARAHDRIVER'Wild and imaginative storytelling' FLEUR HITCHCOCK'A very special story' JULIA GREENOrla has lived on her own since Ma died, with only her belovedgarden for company. When sickness comes and nature is blamed, Orlaknows she must find a cure.Armed with her mother's book of plants and remedies, she stealsaway on a river boat with two other stowaways, Idris and Ariana.Soon the trio must navigate the rapids of the Inkwater to a poisonousplace from which they may never return ... Fast-paced, thrilling storytelling, packed full of rusticadventure and peril  A wild rapids-ride of a story, suffused at every turnwith authentic details of the natural worldShortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2023A gorgeous gifty book for ages 9 and up: a flapped paperbackwith illustration by Marie-Alice Harel  'Fast-paced and highly original' GILL LEWIS'Wild and bewitching' NICOLA PENFOLD'A thrilling, beautiful, important book' NATASHAFARRANT

Set in a world where plants talk, friendship is hard-wonand adventure is around the bend of every river ...'I could almost feel the river mist settling in my hair' SARAHDRIVER'Wild and imaginative storytelling' FLEUR HITCHCOCK'A very special story' JULIA GREENOrla has lived on her own since Ma died, with only her belovedgarden for company. When sickness comes and nature is blamed, Orlaknows she must find a cure.Armed with her mother's book of plants and remedies, she stealsaway on a river boat with two other stowaways, Idris and Ariana.Soon the trio must navigate the rapids of the Inkwater to a poisonousplace from which they may never return ... Fast-paced, thrilling storytelling, packed full of rusticadventure and peril  A wild rapids-ride of a story, suffused at every turnwith authentic details of the natural worldShortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2023A gorgeous gifty book for ages 9 and up: a flapped paperbackwith illustration by Marie-Alice Harel  'Fast-paced and highly original' GILL LEWIS'Wild and bewitching' NICOLA PENFOLD'A thrilling, beautiful, important book' NATASHAFARRANT