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.