What do you do if: an outsider tells you the teachings of Ratface and the White Leage are wrong? Max and Christina have grown up in the White League. But when they begin to find out the truth about the cult, they know they must escape.
What do you do if: an outsider tells you the teachings of Ratface and the White Leage are wrong? Max and Christina have grown up in the White League. But when they begin to find out the truth about the cult, they know they must escape.
Reissue of a novel for older children, first published 1993. Story of a cult that isolates and indoctrinates children, and the two members who discover they are being tricked. Christina, a strong and courageous girl, and the more timid Max, decide they have had enough but their path to freedom and a new life is not an easy one. Author's other books include 'The Bamboo Flute', winner of the 1993 CBC Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers.
GARRY DISHER grew up on a wheat and wool farm in South Australia. He has an MA in Australian History and has lived, worked and travelled in England, Italy, Israel, the USA and southern Africa. In 1978 he was awarded a creative writing fellowship to Stanford University, where he wrote his first collection of short stories. Garry worked as a writing lecturer between the years 1980 and 1988, before becoming a full-time writer. He has published over fifty books, including short story collections, literary novels, writers' handbooks and award-winning crime thrillers and children's titles.
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