#alternate-history

#alternate-history

Subsequently, runaway children turned the valley into a fortress, surviving on food they could catch or grow, with occasional forays into the towns below. Riley has heard the rumours, but it is only when she sees a green-clad boy or is it a girl? hovering outside her bedroom window offering directions on how to find Nowhere that she realises this might be her chance to escape and save her little brother from their sadistic guardian.

In this powerful and original epic, a girl ventures from her remote Polynesian island to try to save her people from doom. After Norse invaders slaughter almost everyone on a small Scottish island, a mead wife, a monk and an elderly Norseman find themselves the only survivors. This mystery is filled with fascinating glimpses of mid-18th-century London, where the recently widowed Hannah Cole runs a confectionery shop.