Forced to flee England, the andrews family books passage to a fresh start in a distant country, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land at the end of their crossing. To seventeen-year-old lavinia, uprooted from ever...Forced to flee England, the andrews family books passage to a fresh start in a distant country, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land at the end of their crossing. To seventeen-year-old lavinia, uprooted from everything familiar, it seems a fate worse than the one they left behind.