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Melissa Welliver’s dystopian novel opens with a public execution followed by an explosion, and by the end of chapter two has turned everything the central character thought she knew about herself on its head. Books don’t come much faster paced than that.
Sadie, the protagonist, is horrified to discover she’s one of the ‘Undying’, people who can live forever. In this post-apocalypse autocratic society they are persecuted, singled out by the authorities for cruel treatment, very different to the privileged life she’s been living as the daughter of one of the state’s enforcers.
Someone is fighting back – hence the bomb – and Sadie must decide where her loyalties lie, especially after she agrees to be a spy for the authorities in return for a life-saving operation for her father.
The fast pace continues to the end but always allows time and space for character development and for readers to consider the issues raised.
Andrea Reece
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What if living forever was a death sentence?
Decades after the discovery that a small percentage of the population has stopped ageing, the Avalonia Zone is in crisis. From overpopulation to food shortages, the 'Undying' have been blamed for the state's problems, banished to the fringes of society, and punished for every minor infraction.
When sixteen-year-old Sadie takes the fall for an attack by a rebel group, The Alchemists, she suddenly finds herself wrenched away from her quiet life and from her ailing father.
Armed with little help and even less knowledge, Sadie is thrust into a cold and cryptic 'correctional facility' - The Tower. Here she'll have to rethink everything she's been told about the Undying population in an attempt to save the life she knows, protect a group of unlikely friends, and give voice to the voiceless in a society on the brink of catastrophic upheaval.
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Melissa Welliver writes speculative fiction about how the end of the world is never really the end of the world. After studying Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, she went on to complete Curtis Brown's Creative Writing for Children course. Her work has listed in Bath Novel Award, Mslexia, the Hachette Children’s Novel Award and the Wells Book for Children Competition. Melissa lives in the North of England with her doodles, Maude and Zelda.
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