The year is 2086. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime – descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster – sixteen-year-old Boo Ashworth and her uncle risk everything to save what's left of human knowledge, hiding the last surviving books in a secret library beneath the streets of Hobart. But Boo has a secret of her an astonishing ability to memorise entire texts with perfect recall. When the library is discovered and destroyed, she's forced to flee – armed with nothing but the stories she carries in her mind, and a growing understanding of her family's true past. Hunted and alone, and with the help of some unlikely allies, she must fight to save her loved ones – and bring hope to a broken world. Spanning three generations before, during and after the fall, The Hope is the shattering conclusion to Paul E. Hardisty's critically acclaimed climate-emergency trilogy – a devastating, visionary thriller that dares to imagine the possibility of redemption in the face of near-total collapse. In a dying world, it asks the most urgent question of what if there's still time?

Udgivet af Orenda Books 

Paul E. Hardisty