The Whale's Last Song: A beautiful, tender new book about love and sacrifice, for readers of Charlie Mackesy and Paulo Coelho LIT-POETRY ‘She is the best writer

‘She is the best writer of magical fantasy for children’ Evening Standard

Rebecca Smith traces the stories of foresters and millworkers

cartoon-style illustrations

and a trunkful of resentment

The Whale's Last Song: A beautiful, tender new book about love and sacrifice, for readers of Charlie Mackesy and Paulo Coelho LIT-POETRY ‘She is the best writerOnce upon a time, a young girl ventured into a dark forest, looking for a cure for her much loved elder sister A touching, tender and lyrical fable about what we do for the ones we love and the beauty and mystery of being alive in a world in which we are part of everything, and everything is part of us. As a terrible pandemic rages through the country, a young girl, Teo, leaves her small village and sets off into the forest, in search of a cure for