Sweet Skies

'A tense thrilling adventure' Sunday Times Best Bookf of the Year 2023' Unusually convincing and atmospheric' Unputdownable' Hilary McKay. Strong publicity campaign, likely to be picked as a best book of the year by national papers

By the acclaimed author of The Tzar's Curious Runaways, the Acrobats of Agra and Hide and Seek, a spine chilling story about survival at the time of the Berlin air-lift. Berlin, 1948. A city besieged and divided into sections. Otto and Ilse are smugglers but smuggling is a dangerous game where no one can be trusted and children's lives are cheap.Berlin 1948. Otto acts as a go-between in a city divided by war where no one can be trusted and everything and everyone is for sale. Otto and Ilse will supply anything for anyone, travelling through underground tunnels below the city.Because you have to survive. One day they're asked to supply a Luger ( a Nazi gun) to a US pilot but to get it they have to negotiate with a ruthless officer in the Russian secret service. A tense and action packed adventure. A SUNDAYTIMES BOOK OF THE WEEK. TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'Unusually convincing and atmospheric' SUNDAY TIMES ' Nail-biting edge of the seat adventure' Just Imagine