Author: Crosby, Polly General fiction (Children's / Teenage)Published on 16 January 2025 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 368 pages197 x 129 x 26 | 242g Enter a darkly dystopian world full of eerie folklore,in which illness and difference have been prohibited. But fromdeep beneath the earth, a rebellion is rising... Perfect for fansof Never Let Me Go and The Luminaries. Ora has always been fascinated by chilling fairy stories of theVulpine – the mythical, fox-like monsterswho live below ground, emerging at night to snatch 'imperfect'babies and children. Because Ora knows that disability and illnesshave no place in her world. To succeed is to be genetically ‘perfect’,just like her best friend Casta and his family.Then, one day, Casta’s baby sister disappears. And Ora’smother reveals a long-buried secret: Ora herself has a geneticillness that affects her lungs... And she's about to be foundout.Desperate for answers and sanctuary, Ora decides to do the unthinkableand seek out the fabled Vulpine. And below the earth, shediscovers a hidden world that turns everything she has been taughtupside-down...A unique and powerful story about stepping into your power andcreating a better world, with a brilliant cast of disabled heroes,from an author whose own experiences of chronic illness informOra's.A chilling dystopian world filled with eerie science fictionand a sweet, slow-burn romance.Perfect for fans of Never Let Me Go, A Handmaid'sTale, The Hunger Games and The Luminaries.
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