WINNER OF THE YOTO CARNEGIE MEDAL 2022 WINNER OF THE YOTO CARNEGIE SHADOWERS’ CHOICE AWARD 2022 ‘A very special new addition to the shelf and deserves classic status’ – The Times Children’s Book of the Week ‘A modern classic … relevant, comforting and life-affirming’ – Scotsman ‘The perfect Autumn read’ – Primary Teacher Bookshelf. A classic in the making for anyone who has ever longed to be WILD.
October and her dad make their home in the woods, where the trees, the rocks, the lake and the stars are as familiar as best friends. They live wild, and that’s simply how things are – until the year October turns eleven. That’s the year she rescues a baby owl. The year Dad tumbles from the tallest tree in their woods. The year the woman who calls herself October’s mother reappears. The year everything changes. Written in Katya Balen’s heart-stoppingly beautiful style, this book is a feast for the senses – and as October fights to carve out space to be wild amid the whirling chaos of the world beyond the woods, it becomes a feast for the soul too.
ISBN 13: 9781526601933
Author: Katya Balen
