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“EVERY WAR HAS turning points and
every person too.”
Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England
to visit her aunt and cousins she’s never met: three
boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes
away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs
go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy.
As power fails, and systems fail, the farm becomes more
isolated. Despite the war, it’s a kind of Eden, with
no adults in charge and no rules, a place where Daisy’s
uncanny bond with her cousins grows into something rare and
extraordinary. But the war is everywhere, and Daisy and her
cousins must lead each other into a world that is unknown
in the scariest, most elemental way.
A riveting and astonishing story.
This is Meg Rosoff’s first novel.
The author lives in London.
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