Join the epic adventures of a resourceful girl and her courageous little brother as they struggle, by wit and grit, to overcome the perils and extreme disadvantages of their lives, in a saga as engaging and entertaining as it is moving and profound. The problems confronting the two are far too common in today’s world; their imaginative, even audacious methods of dealing with them make a story for the ages.

Each chapter provides its own suspenseful story of the duo’s survival in a life with no safety net. Taken together, the book is an epic adventure in which our protagonists’ cunning and compassion leads them along a razor’s edge from slum destitution to high-seas piracy, from international intrigue to household slavery, from the jaws of extremism to the embrace of education.

Gem explores the life-and-death crises that lurk beyond the western gaze with all the insight, compassion, and humour his readers have come to expect. As with all his work, his stories of Igran and Siman “will make you laugh and cry at the same time.” (Michael Maloney, award-winning, bestselling author of Teach Your Children Well.)