Wilhelmina Silver's world is golden Living half-wild on an African farm with her horse, her monkey and her best friend, every day is beautiful But when her home is sold and Will is sent away to boarding school in England, the world becomes impossibly difficult For lions and hyenas are nothing compared to packs of schoolgirls Where can a girl run to in London? And will she have the courage to survive?

 

There are 240 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Faber & Faber .

Katherine Rundell was born in 1987 and grew up in Africa and Europe. In 2008 she was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her first book, The Girl Savage, was born of her love of Zimbabwe and her own childhood there; her second, Rooftoppers, was inspired by summers working in Paris and by night-time trespassing on the rooftops of Oxford colleges. She is currently working on her doctorate alongisde an adult novel.