Author: Nathan, L.M.
Interest age: from c 13 years
Published on 4 July 2024 by Scholastic in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 336 pages
197 x 130 x 25 | 238g
The world didn't end all at once but drip by drip...“An
utterly compelling dystopia...A
simply stunning debut.” - Kat Ellis, author of Harrow
Lake“The must-have book of
the season for those who enjoy their dystopia wrapped in romance.”
- Bex Hogan, author of Viper “Immersive,
beautifully written and achingly romantic,
I state my preference for this gorgeous dystopian debut.”
- Sue Cunningham, author of Totally Deceased
Manon Pawlak has just turned eighteen, a debutant at the start
of the Virtue Season: a process that will result in a match with
a suitable genetic mate. Her best friend, Agatha, has been decommissioned,
forbidden to partake in the season and unite with the
boy who has had her heart since they were children.
When Manon's mother wades out into the waters of Penn Vale with
stones sewn into the lining of her coat, Manon's genetic purity
is called into question and she's forced to rely on the fisherman's
son, Wick, to keep her secret. But as they dance, the truth about
their world starts to unravel, and Manon finds herself at the
centre of it all. And the council is watching.
Bridgerton meets The Hunger Games with shades
of The Handmaid's Tale and 1984
As romantic as it is sinister and completely unputdownable
This is L.M. Nathan's debut YA, almost 10 years in the making
and inspired by the countryside of rural Lancashire
Featuring the ever-popular BookTok tropes of #forbiddenromance,
#friendstolovers and #forcedproximity and themes of a woman's
right to choose, a woman's right to her own body, totalitarianism
and how true love endures in even the darkest of places