Paradise girl
Featherstone, Phill
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Leicestershire : Matador, 2017
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A highly infectious and incurable virus spreads worldwide. Seventeen year old Kerryl Shaw and her family live on a remote farm and think they will be safe, but the plague advances. Despite deaths around them, the Shaws survive. However, this changes when a stranger arrives, and it becomes apparent he's brought the infection to their door. One by one the family succumbs, leaving Kerryl alone.She's sure it's only a matter of time before she too dies, so she decides to record what she thinks will be her final days in a diary. She realises it will never be read, so imagines a reader - Adam. As loneliness and isolation affect the balance of her mind, Adam ceases to be imaginary and becomes real to her.Communications break down and services fail. Unexplained events build fear and menace: Kerryl hears her name called in the night; she's attacked by stray animals and molested when she visits the town; she sees a stranger outside her house, who vanishes when she tries to make contact; objects appear and disappear. The climax comes when she finds a text message on her phone. Who is texting her? How? She thinks it can only be Adam, because now there is no one else left. Another text invites her to a renedous at the Bride Stones, a beauty spot popular with lovers, and she leaves for what she hopes will be a meeting with Adam...
ISBN:
9781785898723
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
BRN:
305559