Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2001, Marcus Sedgwick's powerful debut novel about surviving in a sinking world marks the beginning of the author's multi-award-winning career.
The belief that she will one day find her parents spurs Zoe on to a dramatic escape in a story of courage and determination that is handled with warmth and humanity..
But Eels Island, whose raggle-taggle inhabitants are dominated by the strange boy Dooby, is full of danger too.
Alone and desperate among marauding gangs, she manages to dig a derelict boat out of the mud and gets away to Eels Island.
Zoe, left behind in the confusion when her parents escaped, survives there as best she can.
Imagine that a few years from now England is covered by water, and Norwich is an island.
Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2001, Marcus Sedgwick's powerful debut novel about surviving in a sinking world marks the beginning of the author's multi-award-winning career
