'This book! It broke my heart and then splinted it back together
again. Full of hope and love and wildness... Imagine Watership Down
meets The Animals of Farthing Wood but fiercer.'
Hannah Gold, author of The Last Bear
Chernobyl, 1986. Without humans, how will dogs survive?
As humans fled the nuclear disaster, they were forced to leave their
pets behind. Without people, nature began to return to the woods
surrounding the power plant--lynx, bear, and wolves. But the overgrown
forest is no place for dogs. Can Zoya, and her pups Misha and Luka,
learn to survive in the deadlands? And will Zoya ever find her way home
to her beloved owner?
Praise for Anthony McGowan:
'McGowan's prose is beautiful in its brevity and devastating in its
emotional impact.' Bookseller
'The Carnegie medal winner McGowan is superb at stories about children
who do not have all the advantages.' The Sunday Times