The Last Wild

This is a story about a boy named Kester. He is extraordinary, but he doesn’t know that yet. All he knows, at this very moment, is this:

1. There is a flock of excited pigeons in his bedroom.

2. They are talking to him.

3. His life will never be quite the same again…

A captivating animal adventure destined to be loved by readers of all ages.

‘Splendid stuff’ .

‘A darkly comic and hugely inventive adventure… it could be the next big thing’ .

‘The sequel had better come soon’ .

‘Thrilling… Written in a vivid, urgent style, its sense of loss at all the creatures we have lost or are losing may be as critical to the new generation as Tarka the Otter’ .

‘I haven’t read a book this good and interesting since The Hunger Games… an edge-of-your-seat fast-paced read’ .

‘Inventive, with laughs, tears and cliffhangers’ .

‘An action-packed, dystopian eco-thriller with memorable characters, both animal and human, and a powerful message about the interdependence of man and nature. A promising debut’ .

‘It’s a grim but in no way depressing read, preaching hope amid dystopia’ .

In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, he’s told there’s something wrong with him. So when he meets a flock of talking pigeons and a bossy cockroach, Kester thinks he’s finally gone a bit mad. But the animals have something to say… The pigeons fly Kester to a wild place where the last creatures in the land have survived. A wise stag needs Kester’s help, and together they must embark on a great journey, joined along the way by an over-enthusiastic wolf-cub, a spoilt show-cat, a dancing harvest mouse and a determined girl named Polly. The animals saved Kester Jaynes. Can Kester save the animals?