Book description
A sensational YA science fiction debut from an exciting new British
author. Jarra is stuck on Earth while the rest of humanity portals
around the universe. But can she prove to the norms that she's more than
just an Earth Girl?
2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else portals
between worlds, 18-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people
born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to
Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents.
She can't travel to other worlds, but she can watch their vids, and she
knows all the jokes they make. She's an 'ape', a 'throwback', but this
is one ape girl who won't give in.
Jarra invents a fake background for herself - as a normal child of
Military parents - and joins a class of norms that is on Earth to
excavate the ruins of the old cities. When an ancient skyscraper
collapses, burying another research team, Jarra's role in their rescue
puts her in the spotlight. No hiding at back of class now. To make life
more complicated, she finds herself falling in love with one of her
classmates - a norm from another planet. Somehow, she has to keep the
deception going.
A freak solar storm strikes the atmosphere, and the class is ordered to
portal off-world for safety - no problem for a real child of military
parents, but fatal for Jarra. The storm is so bad that the crews of the
orbiting solar arrays have to escape to planet below: the first landing
from space in 600 years. And one is on collision course with their
shelter. 'With a dash of action, sprinkling of romance, some teenage
angst and a couple of collapsing skyscrapers, this novel contains
everything you could possibly want to grab a teenage reader and keep
them utterly enthralled' Starburst Magazine
'A break from the norms' SFX magazine
'In her debut novel, Janet Edwards has created an authentic futuristic
world with enough history and adventure to keep readers captivated'
Amazon Kindle Editors' Pick - August Book of the Month 2012 Janet
Edwards lives in the Midlands. As a child, she read everything she could
get her hands on, which included the works of many of the great names of
Science Fiction. She read Maths at Oxford, and went on to suffer years
of writing unbearably complicated technical documents. When the company
she worked for entered the stormy waters of take over land, she decided
it was time to jump ship and try writing something that was fun for a
change. She has a husband, a son, a lot of books, and an aversion to
housework.
