Wildlands

What’s it about?

The story.

Twenty-five years from now, a vast swathe of Britain has been given back to the wild. In the Wildlands, wolves, lynx and bison roam free, and no human is allowed to set foot there, except aboard the high-speed train that streaks between London and Glasgow across the heart of the project. Thirteen-year-old Astrid and her little sister Indie are on that train when it makes a brief, unexpected stop, and in a heartbeat they are left behind, stranded in a place of astonishing beauty and very real danger. With only a rucksack, a phone with no signal and each other, the sisters must find a way to survive long enough to be found. Brogen Murphy's gripping debut is at once an edge-of-your-seat survival story and a vivid, hopeful vision of a rewilded future, threaded through with questions about our relationship with nature, the meaning of home and the fierce bond between sisters. Exciting, entirely believable and beautifully written.