Patricia Hruby Powell | Riveting tale set in 1700s has eerie parallels to today
(WorldNews Entertainment)

Nine boys (from 9 to 15 years old) and three men are dropped off at the nearly vertical Warrior Stac — one of the tiny rock islands of the St. Kilda Archipelago in the far northwest of Scotland. The year is 1727. Every summer, a group of boys goes “fowling” to collect gannets, puffins, petrels and other birds for the meat, eggs, feathers, bones and oil to pay as rent to the owner of their island, Hirta. The amazing Geraldine McCaughrean spins her tale from a true event in “Where the World Ends” (Flat Iron 2017). After a...