By: H Crichton
Location: FIC CRI
Genre: Dystopia
‘A heady mix of heartache and hope, love and loss, in a world that’s splitting at the seams... I couldn’t come up for air till I turned the last page’ Robert Rutherford
The unmissable new speculative novel for fans of Station Eleven, The End We Start From and The Last of Us. When the end comes, what will you wish you had done? In 2050s London, fear grips like a vice as a deadly virus sweeps the globe. The British prime minister tells her people to remain calm. A vaccine will be available soon, and as a precautionary measure children will be whisked away to undisclosed locations, kept safe until the storm passes.
Marianne, Downing Street press secretary, doesn’t realise the futility until it is far, far too late. When the truth hits her, Marianne is forced to stay with her family, or do whatever she can to help the doomed survive.
As London falls, seven-year-old Maia is one of the last to escape the city. In an evacuation camp, she binds herself to in the absence of everything she knew, he becomes her everything.
Yet as the years roll on and hope fades, Maia sees the bubble of safety is also a prison. She realises there is only one to leave the camp and find what remains on the outside.
An utterly compelling and unforgettable tale of humanity, resilience and the lengths we will go to for love. The Tomorrow Project is the stunning first novel from H Critchlow.
Praise for The Tomorrow Project ‘Powerful and disturbing’ Harriet Tyce
‘Thrilling, heartbreaking, tense... I was immediately and incessantly caught up in it’ James Delargy
‘Dark, vivid and beautifully written, The Tomorrow Project is a poignant, immersive novel about a future that spools out in terrifying clarity. It's also a novel about bravery and hope - and it will make you cry’ Rachel Wolf
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