Sally Gardner's dystopian tale is the winner of the 2013 CILIP Carnegie Medal and the 2012 Costa Children's Book Award. Standish Treadwell lives with his grandfather in Zone Seven under the constant supervision of the Motherland. He and his best friend Hector dream of escaping to Planet Juniper where they will drive an ice-cream-coloured Cadillac under a technicolor sun. But the Motherland is planning its own, more sinister voyage into space.