Wrath

Marcus Sedgwick crafts a characteristically unsettling mystery exploring teen relationships and our connection to the world around us in this suspenseful and eerie drama.

WRATH: extreme anger or rage

Cassie Cotton has always been unusual, a bit different – but this only makes her more intriguing to her classmate Fitz.

Cassie can hear a noise that most people don’t notice or recognise, and she believes it’s a sound that shows the Earth is in distress, damaged by human activity that is causing climate change.

When this belief leads to her being ridiculed and bullied at school, Cassie disappears. Fitz is determined to find her, but he has no idea where to start looking, or if he’ll be in time to help her…

Particularly suitable for readers aged 11+ with a reading age of 8.

Reviews

"Such a delicately wrought and cleverly done piece of climate fiction, told through the lens of teenagers' lives. Really beautiful" – Lauren James, author

"A brilliantly unsettling novel that readers will race through!" – Sarah Crossan, author

"Meaningful. Powerful. Wonderful" – Tom Palmer, author

"So, so good. A treasure. Exactly as brilliant as I thought it would be" – Dan Smith, author

"A wonder of a book … brilliantly clever, eerie tale by the legendary Marcus Sedgwick." – Emma Carroll, author

"Fast-paced and engaging … Set during the Covid-19 pandemic, Sedgwick accurately conveys how the combined threat of climate change, and the pandemic negatively affected people’s lives." – Children's Books Ireland

"Standard Sedgwick. Brilliant and everything the children’s book industry requires." – NetGalley review

About the author

Marcus Sedgwick was one of this generation’s most lauded and highly regarded writers for children and young people, having published over forty books including acclaimed Midwinterblood and The Monsters We Deserve. He won multiple prestigious awards, most notably the Michael L. Printz Award, the Branford Boase Award, the BookTrust Teenage Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award, and was shortlisted for numerous others, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and the Carnegie Medal five times