This is the sequel to 'The Wild Way Home', but could also be read as a stand alone novel - although it's so good you'd probably want to go back and read its prequel anyway! Sophie Kirtley is an amazing writer (she's a poet too, and it really shows in her prose), and a wonderful storyteller. She manages to write beautifully in a kind of fusion of stone age speak and modern day english which many have probably tried and failed at miserably! In this book, more than the last, she really weaves a story that keeps you on the edge of your seat, which is quite a feat when the actual events covered in the book are a slightly risky trip to an island, and a return home!

Dara and Mothgirl are both running away from the lives they live - Dara because he is sick of being weak and feeble, always waiting for the Big Op that keeps being put off, and Mothgirl because she dreads being handed over to Vulture's neighbouring clan by her Pa, who loves her brave and impetuous spirit but can't escape his belief that some things are 'not the way'. When they meet, their friendship enables them both to realise that they are each stronger when they embrace who they are and don't seek to escape reality.

Brimming with wildness, stunning landscapes, friendship and, above all, the call to integrity, this is a really brilliant book.