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