Happy Sunday my lovely readers. I’m posting on a Sunday, it’s very rare but I’m thinking this could be a regular occurrence. Today I’m excited to be part of The Write Reads – Ultimate Blog Tour for Emily Barr’s latest book Things to do Before the End of the World. It is also the last day of the tour and whilst I was going to review it, I’ve been mood reading a lot this month so I decided to read it a bit later on and do a spotlight of the book as well.
This also inspired a new blog feature simply called ‘Sunday Spotlight’ – this will feature upcoming books coming out that month that I think should definitely be on your radar. Let me know if you’ve read it or adding it to your TBR pile.
Today’s pick
Things to do Before the End of the World by Emily Barr
Published by Penguin Random House Children's UK on May 6, 2021
Genres: Thriller, Young Adult Fiction
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Timely and powerful; the new coming-of-age thriller from the bestselling author of The One Memory of Flora Banks. One minute you're walking in the park, hiding from a party. Then you discover that the next nine months will probably be your last. Everyone's last. You realise that you happen to be alive at the time when your species becomes extinct.You have to decide whether to go with it meekly like you usually do, or to do something brave, to live your last months with all the energy and bravery you can muster, to rage against the dying of the light.
Olivia struggles to live her real life as fully as she wants to. She plans out conversations and events in her head but actually doing them and interacting with other people is hard. When the news breaks that humans have done such damage to the earth that there's only nine months of safe air left everybody makes bucket lists and starts living their best lives - everyone, that is, but Olivia who is still struggling to figure out who she wants to be.
Then out of the blue comes contact from a long-lost cousin Olivia didn't even know exsisted. Natasha is everything Olivia wants to be and more. And as the girls meet up for their last summer on earth Olivia finds Natasha's ease and self-confidence having a effect on her. But what if Natasha isn't everything she first appears to be . . . ?
About the Author
I started out working as a journalist in London, but always hankered after a quiet room and a book to write. I managed, somehow, to get commissioned to go travelling for a year, and came home with the beginnings of a novel set in the world of backpackers in Asia. This became Backpack, a thriller which won the WH Smith New Talent Award, and I have since written eleven more novels for adults, one novella, and three book for Young Adults, published in the UK and around the world. I live in Cornwall with my husband Craig and our children.
Great spotlight!