<p>¿<i>When the next baby is dropped, I will leave to make room for him. He will take my place.¿</i></p><p>Abandoned at birth, the Brothers of the Ikkuma Pit know no mothers. They fend for themselves, each training their Little Brother to survive ¿ until they grow into men and it''s time for their Leaving Day. </p><p>No boy knows what¿s beyond the forest. <br>No Brother who left has ever come back. <br>Until now . . .</p><p>¿An imaginative world with the glint of originality . . . richly conceived<i>¿ Sunday Times</i></p><p>¿The writing [is] sharp and funny, the boys [are] an arresting mixture of toughness and tenderness<i>¿</i><i>Guardian</i></p>