Never-the-less there are some telling comments in this novel the anguish of the mother who didn't want to know about the camps because she was too comfortable speaks to me particularly painfully the slavish attitude of the slaves the inability to explain the reprecussions of particular actions to children and the pile of work, ground out of prisoners, is left rotting on a sea board. Also the number of chases across the wasteland rivalled any James Bond story, and the means whereby one thirteen year old girl elduded men in vehicles with guns really over-stretched credulity. But the idea just doesn't hold up and there seemed to be no point to the exercise the released seeds died and their wildness was totally subjugated to the needs of the child.
The gradual uncovering of the reason for the scientist and her daughter to be sent to a work camp, which related to her experiments in cloning animals and being able to grow them in solution, is clever. It was punchy and eerie and very cleverly showed the limitations of a child's understanding. In a moving and totally absorbing novel, Sloe evolves into a heroine equal to anything amidst this dazzling combination of science, adventure, fantasy and fairy tale.I was really excited by this novel. At 13, and with only the Lindquists for company, Sloe sets off on an epic 1000 mile journey embracing breathtaking adventure, danger and hardships in her quest to be reunited with her mother. These tiny, magical creatures hold the secret to life itself. But her Mama has bequeathed Sloe six tiny animals - like creatures from a fairy tale. Years later Sloe is sent to prison school and Mama disappears. To Sloe, Mama's secret work is magic, as enchanting as Mama's tales of a bright city across the ice where the sun always shines and one day they will be free. Mama's crime teaching science, and her dedication to the hope that the lost animal species can be reborn.
When Sloe was tiny, her Papa disappeared and she and her mama went to live in a prison camp in the snowy North, in a time and place when there are no more wild animals.
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