Aftershocks

Aftershocks

By Author / Illustrator

Anne Fine

Genre

Dystopian

Age range(s)

14+

Publisher

Old Barn Books

ISBN

9781910646779

Format

Hardback

Published

10-02-2022

Synopsis

A family mix-up means Louie has to tag along with his engineer father and his team as they head for a routine job in the farthest flung and most neglected province of the Federation. A massive earthquake, with ensuing tsunami, devastates the entire isolated coastal region, laying bare the other-worldly manner in which the silent and strange Endlanders deal with life, death and the hinterlands of memory and loss. Their curious and unsettling ways raise ghosts for Louie, who has recently lost his own brother.


This modern fable - part ghost-story, part coming-of-age novel and part astute social and family observation - explores the ways in which grief can affect not only individuals, but communities at large.

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