Rona is an eight-year-old living on a remote Scottish island. Life is quiet, particularly so since all the adults perished in an apparent mega-plague. Just five children are left, carrying on with lessons in an abandoned classroom, raiding houses for food, avoiding hungry dogs and tossing messages in bottles into the sea in the hope of rescue. But the radio picks up only static, and the youngest, little Alex, is running out of insulin.
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