Peter Dickinson

Jake's adventures with his older brother turn to something more sinister. A ghost story full of tension and excitement.

Between the parching land and the mothering sea lived a tribe, our ancestors. One of them a child, Li, is different, a thinker, a questioner, preparing herself and them, unawares, for the huge change coming. Four million years later, that sea is dry. Another child, Vinny, visits the site with her father. She too is a thinker, a questioner, a herald of change..