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THE LAST GIRL
A post-apocalyptic novel for our times: a brilliantly imagined and unsettling exploration of the notion of true connectivity.
"I-didn’t-say-that-out-loud!-Can’t-believe-you-think-You-cheated-you-Get-out-my-head-Too-loud-No-don’t-please-Hate-me-why?Only-I-can’t!-Can’t!-No-no-knife!"
When The Snap happens on Christmas morning, everyone can suddenly hear everything everyone else is thinking. As secrets and lies are laid bare, suburbs and cities explode into insanity and violence. What might have been an evolutionary leap for humanity instead threatens the end of the world.
But the telepathy works very differently for sixteen-year-old Danby Armstrong: while she can read other people’s minds, they can‘t read hers.
Not that it’s much comfort because two of The Snap’s first victims are her father and stepmother. Forced to fend for herself and her half-brother, Danby believes the only safe haven may be her mother’s mountain retreat. But between Sydney and Shadow Valley there are one hundred kilometres of highway blocked by thousands of cars and surrounded by millions of people coming apart at the psychic seams.
The Last Girl is Michael Adams' debut novel. He has worked as local newspaper hack, telemarketing jerk, video store clerk, nervous Third World war-zone correspondent, pool boy, schlock movie actor and ice cream scooper until he glommed onto magazine writing, specifically writing film criticism for Empire magazine. He has also written for television and a memoir about a year watching the worst films in the world, Showgirls, Teen Wolves and Astro Zombies.
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Published 2013-10-01 by Allen & Unwin |