To the Wild Sky
To the Wild Sky by Ivan Southall is a New Ed edition published by Penguin in 1971, featuring 224 pages in English. This book presents a narrative centered around six children who find themselves in a transformative journey, leaving behind their familiar lives, including school, home, and family. The story captures their feelings of dislocation and the surreal experience of stepping into a new reality, as if they have been on an airplane for an extended period.
Readers will discover a tale that explores themes of childhood and adventure, as the children navigate their emotions and the sense of freedom that comes with their departure from the known. The narrative delves into their experiences and perceptions, creating a vivid portrayal of their journey into the unknown. This edition invites readers to reflect on the complexities of growing up and the impact of change, all within the framework of children’s stories.
Official synopsis Publisher
They are six children and they seemed to be flying away from everything they had ever known: school, home, mums and dads, friends, relations, and everything else that had added up to be their lives. It was the strangest feeling, as though they had shut a door behind them and stepped into emptiness. As though they had climbed into this aeroplane ages ago and had been in it ever since. As though, in some way, there had been a trick of time and they were its captives …
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