Product Description
The Memory Thieves
Author: Darren Simpson
Format: Paperback
Recommended for ages 11+
Ysgol Bae Baglan Book Award (Upper School) 2022
Portsmouth Book Award 2022
Redbridge Children's Book Award 2022
Warwickshire Secondary Book Award 2023
Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2022
What you don't remember can't hurt you...
Cyan has lived at the Elsewhere Sanctuary for as long as he can remember, freed by Dr Haven from dark memories of his past life. But when Cyan finds a mysterious warning carved into the bones of a whale skeleton, he starts to wonder what he had to forget to be so happy.
New resident, Jonquil, begins to resist the sanctuary's treatment, preferring to hold on to her memories - even the bad ones. So when Dr Haven resorts to harsher measures, Cyan embarks on a secret mission to discover the truth about the sanctuary...and himself.
"Marvellously visual and gripping" — A. M. Howell
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