A city girl, a brave rebel Sylvia, comes to the north of England, to the village. And everything around her seems alien and hostile, and the moorlands and the endless empty sky inspire melancholy. She strives back to Newcastle - where the phone works, where her friends are waiting for her. Everything changes overnight when Sylvia meets a young man named Gabriel…This book is an important conversation about how, touching the past, you can find yourself in the present. Here is Sylvia: she feels like a part of nature, filled with its mighty power and returns to the city, ready not only to survive in the modern world, but to change it, to make it better and more perfect.David Almond, Andersen Prize winner and Carnegie Medal winner, already a classic, but he writes today, now - from the very heart of our world.For middle and high school children, as well as for adult connoisseurs of good literature. Published in Russian for the first time.