Ship in the Sky - by Elle Evans (Paperback)
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Highlights
- In the chaos of disaster, finding other people may bring salvation or a new set of dangers where menace, death, friendship, and love are found in the surprising fissures of a drowning world.
- Young Adult Fiction, Science Fiction
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Book Synopsis
In the chaos of disaster, finding other people may bring salvation or a new set of dangers where menace, death, friendship, and love are found in the surprising fissures of a drowning world.
16-year-old Jack wakes from a whisky induced blackout to find an apocalyptic landscape, the earth split open and a violent flood engulfing the farming valley where he lives. Orphaned and homeless, Jack begins searching for signs of life. But someone, or something, is stalking him. Through the flooded streets and buildings, survival rests on a razor-thin edge, the loss or discovery of food and tools the difference between life and death. Jack struggles through a transformed world and into a new life, haunted by the demons and scars of the old.
Set in the near future, Ship in the Sky is a coming-of-age literary work of fiction. Like The Road by Cormac McCarthy but for young adults, it will leave readers both aghast and inspired.
About the Author
Elle Evans is Welsh, though having moved so many times, her accent is decidedly mid-Atlantic. She is currently penning three novels on the go, one of which is the sequel to Ship in the Sky. Elle is also a Transpersonal Psychotherapist, working privately from her home practice in Cape Town, South Africa.