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In Yuri's country, people vanish. An no-one ever comes back. Now Yuri is also on a road to despair - a road built on the bones of those who dared to oppose...

Award: shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Author has won the Carnegie Medal twice, the Whitbread Children's Novel Award twice, the Guardian Children's Literature Award, and a Smarties Prize. She has twice been voted Children's Writer of the Year at the British Book Awards and was the Children's Laureate from 2001 to 2003.