Publisher's Synopsis
From the Guardian Award-winning author of The Mennyms , a poignant, exciting, and witty new novel about interplanetary relocation.
Awake! For morning in the bowl of night
Has flung the stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a noose of Light.
Thomas Derwent and his father live a normal, happy life. But all that is about to end. In their background lurks a secret, and as the past catches up with them it's time for Thomas and his father to face the truth. What follows is something more terrible than either of them could have predicted. Will they survive? And will they survive together?
