Dying to save a life

When her sister Asha dies, Calico agrees to take part in an experiment that will save her. But first, Calico will have to die... Author Kathryn Clark tells ReadingZone about her new YA novel, Things I Learned While I Was Dead.

Cryogenically frozen, Calico expects to be brought back to life when there is a treatment for Asha. But in the future she finds herself, the world is suffering from climate change and the medical centre she is in is impoverished; and there is no sign of Asha. Has Calico made a terrible mistake?

Here, Kathryn talks about some of the questions raised in Things I Learned While I Was Dead, and reads from a short section of the novel.

Read an extract from Things I Learned While I Was Dead, and find out more in ReadingZone's indepth Q&A with the author.