SHORTLISTED FOR THE YOTO CARNEGIE MEDAL 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE UKLA BOOK AWARD 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE YOUNG QUILLS AWARD 2024 The Song Walker is an extraordinary new story of friendship, discovery and courage from Zillah Bethell, author of The Shark Caller which won the Wales Book of the Year and the Edward Stanford Childrens Travel Book of the Year 2022. There are three questions that I need to find the answers to: Where am I? What am I doing here? AndWho am I? When a young girl wakes up in the middle of the desert, she has no idea who she is. Shes wearing one shoe, a silky black dress, and shes carrying a strange, heavy case. She meets Tarni, who is on a mysterious quest of her own. Together, the two girls trek across the vast and ever-changing Australian Outback in search of answers. Except both are also hiding secrets A tense and twisty story about friendship and music, and how we might all find out who we really are.Sunday Times, Childrens Book