Not The Booker Prize Runner-up
Twelve-year-old Myko and his family have fled Eastern Europe for the freedom of America, only to discover their ship has arrived in Tasmania, the former prison island of the British Empire. Myko wonders what will become of them as he watches his parents grow anxious how they will survive in this new land, settled by the wild sons of convicts, and where tigers roam. When his father takes work as a tiger trapper, and Myko discovers the den of the remaining tigers, the family are thrust into conflict over the last of these beautiful, wild beasts. Their battle forces dark secrets to the surface, and pits father against son, in brutal ways.
'A beautiful, powerful tale to move the hardest heart' THE SUN