Revolver Marcus Sedgwick Published by Orion ISBN 978 1 48255 186 8
Marcus Sedgwick is a best-selling youth fiction author who offers his readers something challenging with each book. This is no exception.
Revolver is played out by a small cast in the snowy wastes of the Arctic. There aren't many people in this empty, frozen landscape, but Sedgwick focuses on them with laser-like precision.
Sig Andersson is a teenager in the early 20th century. Eleven years ago, Einar, his father, brought him, his sister and mother to the Arctic to make their fortune. Gold had been discovered in this ice-covered land, and small communities had quickly sprung up on the frozen plains.
Life has been a struggle for Sig and his family from the day they arrived. Sig's mother died when he was only five. The boy's world is a single-room log cabin in the middle of nowhere. Hope is running out.
One terrible day, Einar falls into an ice-covered lake and dies. His frozen body is brought to the cabin, and Sig's sister and stepmother go out looking for help.
