WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR WALES BOOK OF THE
YEARAN OBSERVER 'NEW FACE OF FICTION 2018'This is a story of something like survival.Sal
planned it for almost a year before they ran. And now Sal knows a lot of stuff. Like how to
build a shelter and start a fire. How to estimate distances snare rabbits and shoot an airgun.
And how to protect her sister Peppa. Because Peppa is ten which is how old Sal was when
Robert started on her.Told in Sal's distinctive voice and filled with the silent dizzying
beauty of rural Scotland Sal is a disturbing uplifting story of survival of the kindness of
strangers and the irrepressible power of sisterly love a love that can lead us to do
extraordinary and unimaginable things.
