<b>Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award Longlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award</b>''<b>Unputdownable</b> ¿ An <b>extraordinary </b>book ¿ as <b>insightful </b>and as <b>premonitory </b>as<b> Orwell¿s</b><i><b> 1984</b>¿ Litro</i>''With echoes of<b> Emily St John Mandel </b>and <b>Megan Hunter</b>'' <i>Elizabeth Macneal</i>¿<b>Stylish </b>and <b>thoughtful </b>¿ The eerie claustrophobia of the setting will stay with the reader for a long while.'' <i>Literary Review</i><b>___________________________________________________</b><b>Not all that is hidden is lost¿</b>For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to a croft by pills they take for survival every eight hours. They¿ve kept busy - Aina with her garden, her jigsaw, her music; Whitney with his sculptures and maps - but something is not right.Shipwrecks have begun washing up, supply drops have stopped and on the day their punishment is meant to end,