ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT CHANGED OUR WORLD'
'Exciting, relevant and thought provoking.' STEPHEN KING
'One of my favourite books.' SUZANNE COLLINS
'Exemplary.' IAN MCEWAN
With an Introduction by Producer Joel Wilson, Director Marc Munden and Writer Jack Thorne
'There aren't any grown-ups anywhere.'
A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. By day, they explore the dazzling beaches, gorging fruit, seeking shelter, and ripping off their uniforms to swim in the lagoon. At night, in the darkness of the jungle, they are haunted by nightmares of a primitive beast.
Orphaned by society, they must forge their own; but it isn't long before their innocent games devolve into something far more dangerous . . .Paperback / softback | 240 pages | Published January 1970
