Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
“The novel does not set up an elaborate apocalypse, but astringently strips away the smears hiding the apocalypses we really face. Like Jessie’s, it is a small, calm voice of reason in a nonsensical world.” —
The Independent
Set in a world altered by an act of biological terrorism, comes
The Testament of Jessie Lamb
, a chilling dystopian novel that follows a 16-year-old girl who is driven to the ultimate act of heroism.
, is the breakout novel from award-winning author Jane Rogers. Its cunningly drawn characters and riveting vision of a dystopic future fraught with difficult moral choices will make
an instant favorite for fans of Kazuo Ishiguro’s
Never Let Me Go
, Margaret Atwood’s
The Handmaid’s Tale
, Suzanne Collins’s
The Hunger Games
, and Brian K. Vaughan’s
Y: The Last Man
.