The Last Kings of Sark

Jude, who is twenty-one, travels to Sark, a small, carless Channel Island, to work as a tutor for Pip over the summer. The family is peculiar, with Pip being awkward and over-literal and Esmé casting a shadow over the home. Sofi, the family's holiday cook, is a magnetic, mercurial Polish girl with poor kitchen hygiene who sings to herself and sleeps naked. When the father of the family departs on business, Pip's science lessons are replaced by midday rosé and scallop smuggling, and summer begins. The three of them are drawn together by something unexpected, but those strange, golden weeks cannot last forever.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 21 July 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd

From the author of Dreamland comes a captivating tale of love, missed opportunities, and complicated relationships. Jude, a twenty-one-year-old woman, travels to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island, to abolish feudalism. She is hired for the summer to give tuition to a rich local boy named Pip, but when she arrives, the family is unsettling. Pip is awkward, over-literal, and adamant he doesn't need a tutor, while his enigmatic mother, Esmé, casts a shadow over the house.

Enter Sofi, the family's holiday cook, a magnetic, mercurial Polish girl with appalling kitchen hygiene who sings to herself and sleeps naked. When the father of the family goes away on business, Pip's science lessons are replaced by midday rosé and scallop-smuggling, and summer begins.

But those strange, golden weeks cannot last forever. Later, in Paris, Normandy, and London, Jude, Hey, and the Obscure find themselves looking for the moment that changed everything.

The Last Kings of Sark is a tale of complicated love, only children, and missed opportunities, from one of our most exciting young writers. It is compelling, dark, and funny, and will leave readers eagerly anticipating the next installment in the series.

Weight: 262g
Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781398518643