Returning to the world of }The Girl With All The Gifts{ - a worldwide bestseller which is now a critically acclaimed film starring Glenn Close and Gemma Arterton - comes Carey's new novel. Once upon a time there was a very clever boy. Thinking they could save him, the people sent him out into the wide world to where the monsters resided... 'Carey writes with compassion and fire - strange and surprising and humane' Lauren Beukes, author of }The Shining Girls{