The Last Wild Trilogy: The Last Wild : Book 1 by Piers Torday

From the winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction PrizeThis is a story about a boy named Kester. He is extraordinary, but he doesn't know that yet. All he knows, at this very moment, is this: 1.

There is a flock of excited pigeons in his bedroom. 2. They are talking to him.

3. His life will never be quite the same again... Kester lives in a land in quarantine.