My Name Is Monster (eBook)

Katie Hale (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019 | Main
255 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78689-637-7 (ISBN)

Infos

'Strikingly beautiful' Guardian'Tough and tender' Joanne HarrisAfter 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 . . .

Autor

Born in Cumbria, Katie Hale is a poet, freelance journalist and educator. She has held Emerging Writer in Residence posts at Theatre by the Lake and Creative Futures Cumbria, and is currently working on an oral story-sharing project with the National Trust. Her debut poetry pamphlet, Breaking the Surface, was published by Flipped Eye in 2017, her poetry has been awarded the Jane Martin and Ware Poetry Prizes, and has been shortlisted for the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize. My Name Is Monster is her debut novel. @halekatie | halekatie.com

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.6.2019
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Breaking the Surface • Coming-of-age • debut fiction • dystopian • female relationships • Isolation • literary fiction • Motherhood • Poetry • post-apocalyptic • Power • strong female characters • Survival • WriteNow
• ISBN-10: 1-78689-637-0 / 1786896370
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78689-637-7 / 9781786896377