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'Strikingly beautiful' Guardian 'Tough and tender' Joanne Harris
After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have
fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the Arctic
vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of
Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone
in an empty world. Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a
life. Until, one day, she finds a girl: another survivor, feral,
and ready to be taught all that Monster knows. But as the lonely
days pass, the lessons the girl learns are not always the ones
Monster means to teach . . .
After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have
fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the Arctic
vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of
Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone
in an empty world. Monster begins the long walk south, scavenging
and learning the contours of this familiar land made new. Slowly,
piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a life. Until, one day, she
finds a girl: another survivor, feral, and ready to be taught all
that Monster knows. But the lessons the girl learns are not always
those Monster means to teach . . . Inspired by Robinson Crusoe and
Frankenstein, My Name Is Monster is a novel about power, about the
things that society leaves imprinted on us when the rules no longer
apply, and about the strength and the danger of a mother's love.
The poems in Katie Hale's Breaking the Surface are populated with
totems of our wild, essential truths- from the raven bearing
witness to death, to the wolf's dark appetite. Hale interrogates
desire in its different forms and unpicks the seams of myths,
folktales and fairy stories, offering them up with new life. A
self-assured debut.
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