Helena's family is part of the 21st-century elite: the wealthy. She has never known poverty, but for Hugh and the other desperate unemployed who comb the dustbins of Cardiff, starvation and struggle is the only way of life. But from the moment they meet, Helena and Hugh are attracted to each other.

 

This book is part of a book series called Red Fox Young Adult .

There are 220 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .

Louise Lawrence, who died in December 2013, was one of Britain's most respected writers of speculative fiction, often depicting clashes between social classes and species. Her debut novel, Andra, was published in 1971. She is perhaps best known for Children of the Dust (1985) - about the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust, which was banned from many school libraries, but has achieved a cult following - and has been widely and successfully published in the USA as well as in Britain. Hodder Silver is proud to introduce her stunning Llandor sequence to a new generation of readers.