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A contemporary take on After moving from the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': a group of mismatchedUnited States to Oxford, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. young Link is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard set to settle into attend the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange He is confounded by the bizarre old traditions to understand? And what kind of the school ranks its students , such as judging the worth of a student by how fast they can run round around the school quad - however ancient that quad may be? Quad. When Link he runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the butt of every biggest joke in the school joke. And some students are determined and his peers set out to make his life more miserable than others..a living hell. When a school summer trip is offeredrolls around, Link can 't think of nothing anything worse than spending voluntary having to spend more time with his worst tormentorsaround them. But when his parents say he can only leave Osney School - forever - if he goes on the this trip, Link decides is more than happy to endure it for the ultimate prizeput up with his obnoxious schoolmates knowing that he'd never have to see them again afterwards. But this particular trip will require , when their plane crashes on a very special sort of endurance. The saying goes 'No man is an remote island, Link realises he might have to endure more than just his classmate' - but what if on that island is a group of teenagerss antics. As hunger, none of whom particularly like each other? When oppressive heat, hunger thirst and thirst start to bitedesperation set in, everyone's true colours will be revealed. Let the battle commencestart to bleed through...
The book is, first and foremost, a character study of each of the survivors on the island, who initially all seem to conform to various high-school stereotypes. Link, our protagonist, is the archetypal geek, being interested in books and video games. He's the only member of the group who actually has any clue as to how to survive on the island. His primary tormentor is Sebastian Loam, the archetypal 'Jock' – big, handsome, good at sports, but completely lacking in any sort of academic ability. Gil Egan, Sebastian's partner-in-crime, is like an inverted version of Link, being just as intelligent as the latter, but completely loyal to Sebastian. Miranda Pencroft, the archetypal 'Beautiful Girl' also happens to be Sebastian's girlfriend. Her friend Jun Am Li is the stereotypical 'Asian Overachiever', who wishes to become a famous violinist one day. There is also Ralph Turk, who acts very much like the stereotypical 'chav', despite being from a quite wealthy part of Oxford. And finally, there is Flora, who seems to be an 'emo', and is also one of the few people Link thinks of as a friend. However, as the end of the book reveals, this was most likely intentional, and each of the characters turns out to be so much more than their initial appearance would suggest.
