The Ruinous Sweep
Age 14+
General Fiction
“Unsettling and powerful, Wynne-Jones’s work is intellectually and emotionally demanding and leads to a surprisingly strong catharsis.” — Shelf Awareness (starred review)
On the night Donovan Turner is thrown from a car on a highway in the middle of nowhere, he can barely remember his own name, let alone the past twenty-four hours. With sirens in the distance and the lingering feeling that he’s running from something (or someone), Donovan flees. When the police show up and hint that Dono is the prime suspect in a murder, his girlfriend, Bee, is determined to piece together what happened and clear his name. With echoes of Dante’s Divine Comedy, this harrowing journey through hell and back is a page-turning tale of guilt, love, and redemption.
Creators
Tim Wynne-Jones is the accomplished author of numerous young adult novels, including The Emperor of Any Place, which earned seven starred reviews, Blink & Caution, winner of the 2012 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and The Uninvited. In 2012 he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada for his services to literature. Tim Wynne-Jones lives in Ontario.
