Abandoned at birth, the Brothers of the Ikkuma Pit know no mothers. They fend for themselves, each training their Little Brother to survive тАУ until they grow into men and it's time for their Leaving Day.
No boy knows whatтАЩs beyond the forest.
No Brother who left has ever come back.
Until now . . .
тАШAn imaginative world with the glint of originality . . . richly conceivedтАЩ Sunday Times
тАШThe writing [is] sharp and funny, the boys [are] an arresting mixture of toughness and tendernessтАЩ Guardian