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Hargrave, Kiran Millwood The Island at the End of Everything Chicken House, 2017, pp244, ?6.99 978 1 910002 76 6
The setting is an isolated community and is based on historical truth, From 1906 until 1988 the Philippine island of Culian was used in an effort to contain leprosy.
The story is set in the early 1900s through the eyes of a young girl, Amihan, who lives on Culian with her mother, her Nanay. She does not herself have the disease although her mother is...