Title: Above
Author: Isla
Morley
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Publish Date: March 3, 2014
Publisher: Gallery Books
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Publish Date: March 3, 2014
Publisher: Gallery Books
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~ Book Synopsis ~
In ABOVE chosen for the March 2014 Indie Next List,
award- winning author Isla Morley crafts a stunning and harrowing novel about a
Kansas teenager who is abducted and locked away in an abandoned missile silo by
a conspiracy theorist who believes the end of the world is coming. Blythe
Hallowell is sixteen when she is abducted by a survivalist and locked away in
an abandoned missile silo in Eudora, Kansas. At first, she focuses frantically
on finding a way out, until the harrowing truth of her new existence settles
in—the crushing loneliness, the terrifying madness of a captor who believes he
is saving her from the end of the world, and the persistent temptation to give
up. But nothing prepares Blythe for the burden of raising a child in
confinement.
Determined to give the boy everything she has lost,
she pushes aside the truth about a world he may never see for a myth that just
might give meaning to their lives below ground. Years later, their lives are
ambushed by an event at once promising and devastating. As Blythe’s dream of
going home hangs in the balance, she faces the ultimate choice —between
survival and freedom.
ABOVE is a riveting tale of resilience in which
“stunning” (Daily Beast) new literary voice Isla Morley compels us to imagine
what we would do if everything we had ever known was taken away. Like the bestselling
authors of Room and The Lovely Bones
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About the Author
About the author: Isla Morley grew up in South Africa
during apartheid, the child of a British father and a fourth- generation South
African mother. She now lives in Los Angeles with her husband, their daughter,
and an assortment of animals. Her critically acclaimed debut novel Come Sunday
was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for
the Commonwealth Prize. It has been translated into seven languages
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