First published 2022
When a group of British schoolboys crash-land on a remote Pacific island, they must band together to endure the harsh realities of their new environment. As food and resources dwindle, the boys' veneer of civility begins to crack, and they descend into a Darwinian struggle for power and dominance. Trapped in close quarters, their primitive impulses and moral compasses are tested to the breaking point, leading to a shocking conclusion that exposes the fragility of human nature.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, 20th-century, adventure
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: descent-into-madness, fish-out-of-water
281 pages · Paperback · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Content warnings: graphic-violence, violence