The Godless Boys

âeVibrant and evocativeâetm Stylist Imagine an alternative England where the Church controls the country and nonbelievers have been exiled to a remote island. On the Island a fierce group of boys patrols the community searching for signs of faith and punishing any believers. When a new girl appears arriving from the mainland to search for her longlost mother the gang is split one boy falls in love with her another seeks violent revenge. The struggle between them will change everything. âeThe comforts of faith the terrors of extremism the loneliness of not believing anything at all these are the aggressively modern tensions that pierce Woodâetms novel . . . richly conceivedâetm Metro âeA gripping wellcrafted tale . . . impressiveâetm Observer