Bearmouth

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Life in Bearmouth is one of hard labour, the sunlit world above the mine a distant memory. Reward will come in the next life with the benevolence of the Mayker. Newt accepts everything - that is, until the mysterious Devlin arrives. Suddenly, Newt starts to look at Bearmouth with a fresh perspective, questioning the system, and setting in motion a chain of events that could destroy their entire world.

In this powerful and brilliantly original debut novel, friendship creates strength, courage is hard-won and hope is the path to freedom.

Reviews

'An extraordinary dystopian novel... compelling and original' - Sunday Times, Book of the Year

'One of the most vivid, tough, bold and gripping books I've read in a long time - and it's utterly original, the kind of story to carry you away' - Katherine Rundell, author of The Good Thieves

'Like nothing I have read before... hand-in-mouth gripping... [Hyder] will become a household name and her books a curriculum staple' - The Times, Children's Book of the Month

'One of the most ambitious and darkly brilliant YA books I've read. It's provocative, tender, claustrophobic and epic. It blew my mind' - Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink & Stars

'Bearmouth is devastating, genre breaking, a book in which the very language changes as the plot progresses. A Jonathan Livingstone Seagull for today. I can't wait to see what Hyder does next, I will go wherever she takes me' - Daisy Johnson

Author Bio

Liz Hyder has been making up stories ever since she can remember. She has a BA in drama from the University of Bristol and, in early 2018, won the Bridge Award/Moniack Mhor's Emerging Writer Award. Her first novel, Bearmouth, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Readers, the Branford Boase Award, and was TheTimes's Children's Book of The Year.She has since written two acclaimed historical fiction novels for adults - TheGifts and TheIllusions - and is currently working on more ideas than she has time to write.