Book Descriptions:

LAST ONES LEFT ALIVE is the unputdownable debut novel from Sarah Davis-Goff. It will appeal to readers of dystopian literary fiction such as STATION 11 or THE END WE START FROM. Watch your six. Beware tall buildings. Always have your knives. Orpen has been raised by her mother and Maeve on Slanbeg, an island off the west coast of Ireland, with their dog Danger and their chickens. It is a childhood full of love, rock pools and stories by the fireside. But it is also a childhood full of grueling physical training and constant vigilance. For Ireland has been devoured by a ravening menace known as the skrake, and though Slanbeg is safe for now, the women have no way of knowing how long it will remain so. When Maeve is bitten by a skrake on a visit to the mainland, Orpen is faced with a dilemma: kill Maeve before her transformation is complete, or try to get help. And so she embarks, pushing Maeve in a wheelbarrow and with Danger at her side, on a long walk to the fabled Phoenix City in the east, in the desperate hope of finding other survivors - and a cure. It is a journey that will test Orpen to her physical limits, on which she will learn who she is, who she really loves, and how to imagine a future in a world that was over before she was born.




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