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Available on Jun 08, 2027 | 288 Pages
Radiating urgency and emotional truth, a charged eco-dystopian romance unpacks a dark dream of one possible future for humanity—and enters the running for YA debut of the season.
Devotees of beautifully crafted, original, heart-led speculative fiction like How I Live Now and The Quiet at the End of the World have a new champion in Nicola Penfold, whose spare, compulsively readable first novel for teens imagines a world ravaged by climate change, politics, and propaganda, where survival has everything to do with who you are . . . in spite of who you love. School’s out and Molly and her friends, as part of the last generation in the sun, are making the most of summer: swimming in the salt pools, roaming the parched hills, flirting, living every day like it’s their last. And it may as well be because, for the good of the planet, the whole of humanity is about to enter a vast subterranean bunker for a century of retreat. But when that day comes, nothing they’ve been told about their new underground lives turns out to be true. At least not for everyone. Emotionally rich and frighteningly plausible, Our Last Days of Summer will resonate at high volume for a post-Covid generation grappling with the weighty questions of our time—why now? why us?—while recalling all there is to fight for and to cherish.
Devotees of beautifully crafted, original, heart-led speculative fiction like How I Live Now and The Quiet at the End of the World have a new champion in Nicola Penfold, whose spare, compulsively readable first novel for teens imagines a world ravaged by climate change, politics, and propaganda, where survival has everything to do with who you are . . . in spite of who you love. School’s out and Molly and her friends, as part of the last generation in the sun, are making the most of summer: swimming in the salt pools, roaming the parched hills, flirting, living every day like it’s their last. And it may as well be because, for the good of the planet, the whole of humanity is about to enter a vast subterranean bunker for a century of retreat. But when that day comes, nothing they’ve been told about their new underground lives turns out to be true. At least not for everyone. Emotionally rich and frighteningly plausible, Our Last Days of Summer will resonate at high volume for a post-Covid generation grappling with the weighty questions of our time—why now? why us?—while recalling all there is to fight for and to cherish.
