Orla has lived on her own since Ma died, with only her beloved garden for company.

When sickness comes and nature is blamed, Orla knows she must find a cure. Armed with her mother's book of plants and remedies, she steals away on a river boat with two other stowaways, Idris and Ariana. Soon the trio must navigate the rapids of the Inkwater to a poisonous place from which they may never return ...

The debut novel from an astonishingly talented new writer. A wild rapids-ride of a story, suffused at every turn with authentic details of the natural world.

A gorgeous gifty book: a flapped paperback with illustration by Marie-Alice Harel.