Salt by Maurice Gee. Victoria: Orca Book Publishers, 2009. 252 pages. ISBN 978-1-55469-209-5
Volume One of the Salt trilogy.
Hari and the others of Blood Burrow suffer starvation, enslavement and death under Company. Pearl lives a life of luxury and ease but she is under control of Company and has been promised in marriage to a powerful man. While these two come from different worlds, they are connected in their talent to use their minds to speak to people and animals. Both on the run for different reasons, they are soon united in their quest to save the world from a deadly terror found in Deep Salt.
2008 winner of the New Zealand Post Book Award for Young Adult Fiction
