A swash-buckling adventure set among the pirates of Madagascar from multi award-winning author, Geraldine McCaughrean
"This must be the finest adventure story for years...A brilliant read." - The Guardian
"McCaughrean has the gift of making remote times and places unfold as if before the reader's very eyes...what a novelist!" - The Independent
"told with swashbuckling bravado that leaves you laughing and breathless" - Times Educational Supplement
"This swashbuckling adventure is not to be missed!" - The Daily Telegraph
"a superb adventure story - the literary equivalent of a good all-action movie." - Good Housekeeping