Girl. Boy. Sea. av Chris Vick

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<b>Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Prize 2020. </b>''A thrilling and a magical book'' Sally Gardner. <b>Storm, shipwreck, survival. Chris Vick''s novel delves deep into the might and majesty of the unpredictable ocean, the strength of an unlikely friendship between a British boy and a Berber girl and their will to survive against all the odds. </b>A British boy narrowly survives the sinking of his yacht in a huge storm off the coast of Morocco. After days alone at sea in a tiny rowing boat Bill rescues a girl clinging for her life to a barrel. Aya, from the nomadic Berber tribe, was escaping to Europe when her migrant ship was destroyed in the same storm. Through endless days and star-spangled nights, they drift ¿ mere specks on the vast, empty ocean ¿ weakened by fear, hunger, and burned by the unforgiving sun. Aya tells Bill about <i>The Arabian Nights</i>, and Shahrazad, who told 1001 stories to save her life. As hope of rescue begins to fade, they find strength in these tales of