Where the World Ends, Geraldine McCaughrean
Where the World Ends, Geraldine McCaughrean
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Where the World Ends

Author: Geraldine McCaughrean

Narrator: Angus King

Unabridged: 7 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/03/2019

Synopsis

"McCaughrean takes the bones of a real event, wraps it in immersive, imaginative detail and thoroughly real emotion, and creates an unforgettable tale of human survival. A masterpiece." - Kirkus Reviews

Winner of the 2018 Carnegie Medal! New from Michael L. Printz Award winner Geraldine McCaughrean comes an extraordinary story of eight boys stranded on a rock in the middle of the sea, left to fight for their survival.

Every time a lad went fowling on the stacs, he came home less of a boy and more of a man. If he went home at all, that is.

Every summer Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds. But this summer, no one arrives to take them home. Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they’ve been abandoned—cold, starving and clinging to life, in the grip of a murderous ocean. How will they survive such a forsaken place of stone and sea?

This is an extraordinary story of fortitude, endurance, tragedy and survival, set against an unforgettable backdrop of savage beauty.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

"McCaughrean, who won the Printz Award for The White Darkness (2007), slips into the cracks of the human soul, dissecting with compassion the many paths that a person might take when confronted with such a challenge." — Booklist, starred review

About Geraldine McCaughrean

Geraldine McCaughrean is the author of the Printz Award winner The White Darkness, the New York Times bestseller Peter Pan in Scarlet, and many other books for children and young adults. She is a two-time winner of the Carnegie Medal, once for Where the World Ends. Geraldine lives in Berkshire with her husband John and the lingering shades of all those characters she has invented in her books. Her cottage is under year-round siege from wild birds demanding to be fed. The ducks even knock on the door.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hannah on December 26, 2020

2020 Best Books of the Year [#04 of 11] A hellish and harrowing yet beautifully written survival story based on true events. It's no wonder Where the World Ends was nominated for the Printz Award. An absolute must read. Somewhere within the rock, the shearwaters began their unearthly chatter. It made......more

Goodreads review by Paige on November 03, 2019

This book is true to the blurb. Set in 1727, a group of boys from Hirta go hunting on a sea stac in St. Kilda. No one comes to pick them up as they normally do and they become stranded for many months. Most of the time, the story dragged. It's mostly about their day-to-day mundane happenings and a l......more

Goodreads review by Jasmine on October 15, 2019

This book is unique. The writing is not what I'm used to but it grows on me and I like the humor underneath it. The broken English in their conversation is hard to read but I'm guessing that it's how the people of Hirta talks. I like Murdo and his talks of sweethearts. I like John's surprise. I also......more

Goodreads review by F on October 05, 2020

Really enjoyed learning about a place in my country that i didn't know existed until this book. Very interesting. I thought it was very adult for a YA book. Dragged a little.......more

Goodreads review by Nursebookie on February 06, 2020

"Every time a lad came fowling on the St Kilda stacs, he went home less of a boy and more of a man. If he went home at all, that is…” In the summer of 1727, a group of men and boys were sent to a sea stac (only a few miles away from the shore - unbeknownst to any of them) to harvest birds for food –......more

Awards

  • Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year
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