Waiting on Wednesday / Can’t Wait Wednesday! The Survival Game by Nicky Singer #AuthorSpotlight on #AltRead @HachetteKids @emilyhopeth #WOW #YA

Waiting on Wednesday / Can’t Wait Wednesday

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Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted here, at Wishful Endings, and my version is a mix of what I’m waiting to read, whether it’s a new release that is not out yet, or an older book on my TBR shelf, which I really want to read but haven’t got around to it yet.

Here’s my ‘Can’t wait to read’, book for this week:

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The Survival Game

by Nicky Singer (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.0  ·   Rating details ·  21 Ratings  ·  10 Reviews
In a world full of checkpoints and controls, can love and hope defy the borders? A searing, timely story, as arresting as it is beautiful.

Mhairi Anne Bain owns only two things: a gun with no bullets and her identity papers.

The world is a shell of what it once was. Now, you must prove yourself worthy of existence at every turn, at every border checkpoint. And if you are going to survive, your instincts will become your most valuable weapon.

Mhairi has learnt the importance of living her own story, of speaking to no one. But then she meets a young boy with no voice at all, and finds herself risking everything to take him to safety.

And so Mhairi and the silent boy travel the road north. But there are rumours that things in Scotland have changed since she has been away. What Mhairi finds there is shocking and heart-breaking, but might finally re-connect her to her sense of self and to the possibility of love.

An extraordinary story about survival and what it costs, about the power of small kindnesses to change everything.

In the UK this title will be released on July 26, 2018. 

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About the Author

Nicky has written four novels for adults, two books of non-fiction but most of her recent work is for young people. Her first children’s novel Feather Boy won the Blue Peter ‘Book of the Year’ Award, was adapted for TV (winning a BAFTA for Best Children’s Drama) and then commissioned by the National Theatre as a musical with lyrics by Don Black and music by Debbie Wiseman. In 2010 Nicky was asked by Glyndebourne to adapt her novel Knight Crew (a re-telling of the King Arthur legend set in contemporary gangland) for an opera with music by Julian Philips. In 2012 her play Island (about ice-bears and the nature of reality) premiered at the National Theatre and toured 40 London schools. She also published The Flask that year. A story about songs and souls and things which live in bottles, The Guardian called The Flask ‘a nourishing and uplifting story, with big themes and a big heart’. Nicky has recently re-written Island as a novel with illustrations by Children’s Laureate, Chris Riddell.

 

What have you been wanting to read? 

I’m sooooooo excited about this!

Is this on your TBR or have you already read it? Let me know in the comments below!

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Author: Sassy Brit, Author Assistant

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6 thoughts on “Waiting on Wednesday / Can’t Wait Wednesday! The Survival Game by Nicky Singer #AuthorSpotlight on #AltRead @HachetteKids @emilyhopeth #WOW #YA

  1. I like the Scotland setting, and the post apocalyptic sound of it. Also that cover, with the child looking up at the adult- quite striking!

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