The Newberry Medal-winning story of a 12-year old girl who lives alone on a Pacific island after she leaps from a rescue ship. Isolated on the island for eighteen years, Karana forages for food, builds weapons to fight predators, clothes herself in a cormorant feathered skirt, and finds strength and peace in her seclusion.
From the bestselling author of The Orphan Collector comes a beautifully written and moving tale of family secrets and the importance of a mother’s love—and how it can shape a life—even in the most shocking ways. A painful saga of strength and reinvention set in two different times, as two young women come of age and uncover the mysteries of their families, and find their own ways in the world.
It is Paris, 1939. Twenty-eight year old Eva Delectorskaya is at the funeral of her beloved younger brother. Standing among her family and friends she notices a stranger — Lucas Romer an Englishman with a secretive air and a mysterious connection to Eva’s murdered brother. Romer recruits Eva and soon she is traveling to Scotland to be trained as a spy…
