"They thought they had disappeared, and they were wrong. They thought we were dead, and they were wrong. We stumbled together out of the ancient darkness into the shining valley. the sun glared down on us.The whole world glistened with ice and snow... Who could have known that we would walk together with such happiness, after all we'd been through? It started with a game..."

In Stoneygate there was a wilderness, an empty space between the houses and the river where the ancient coal pit had once been. In the wilderness Kit met Askew, with his wild dog, Jax. Askew who ran the game called Death.

The wilderness where Kit begins to confront death - and life…

"Kit's Wilderness establishes Almond as the most exciting new voice in children's books this decade." - LITERARY REVIEW

"A quite extraordinary book. Tender, lyrical, yet it fairly crackles with suspense. Unforgettable." - Michael Morpurgo

Kit's Wilderness won both the Smarties Award Silver Medal (9-11 year category) and the Michael L. Printz Award. David Almond's debut novel Skellig is one of the most remarkable children's novels published in recent years. It won the 1998 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award and the Carnegie Medal.