The Last Boy

by Eve McDonnell

A fantasy ghost thriller set among the stars.

Brewster has been sold to a cruel Master Sweep to risk his life climbing up a narrow jungle of chimneys to reach the sky. But Brewster has a SECRET. He’s a WIZARD with numbers and he’s predicted a terrifying STORM OF STARS... Upon
each star he’ll cast his passionate wish to be the last climbing boy EVER. When a powerful woman offers to make his wish come true, Brewster is challenged to do something impossible in return... A wish for a wish.

‘There is magic in these pages...’ Helena Duggan

‘Wondrous’ Pádraig Kenny

‘A spectacular adventure. Sumptuous language. History brought vividly to life’ Patricia Forde

‘Exciting, enthralling and engrossing with a Leviathan-sized heart’ Sinéad O’Hart

'A heart-racing, heart-wrenching read that will stay in my mind for a long long time.' Sophie Kirtley

309 pages, Paperback

First published September 12, 2024

Reviews

[Sinéad O'Hart]

Eve McDonnell's THE LAST BOY is profound, moving, and unique. Telling a fictionalised account of the life of George Brewster (a true 'climbing boy' who lived in England in the nineteenth century) and weaving the facts of his life and death into a tale of telescopes, grief, and scientific endeavour, this really is a book like no other. As ever, Eve McDonnell's imagination brings you on an unpredictable, thrilling, and very worthwhile journey.

[Sarah Merrett]

Really loved this wonderful and heart-rending story of the last ever child chimney sweep. It’s full of hopes, dreams and deep emotions, and as ever, is beautifully written.

[Willow]

I didn't like this book so much but its really fast paced as when I DNFed the book I was in chapter 2 on page 24.