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Product Info
Publisher: Canongate
Author: Katie Hale
ISBN: 9781786896360
Year: 2021
Format: Paperback
Fiction, Dystopia
My Name Is Monster
by
Katie Hale
My Name Is Monster by
Katie Hale
Reviews
"Fresh and powerful… Hale’s writing is assured and… strikingly beautiful… Most of all, the book has a great generosity and empathy for monsterdom, and refreshingly allows its characters to find happiness without becoming more ordinary… Hale is certainly a skilful writer with a compelling voice, and her ideas are bold and promising."
The Guardian
Summary
After 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…