White Horse - Softcover

Alex Adams

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857209973 ISBN 13: 9780857209979

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK, 2013

Synopsis

When I wake the world is gone. Only fragments remain. And then I remember ...Before: Her life may have taken a couple of wrong turns but Zoe is trying to make the best of what she has. A part-time cleaning job to pay for college, a weekly appointment with her therapist to straighten out the problems in her life. The same problems that any thirty-year-old would have. Nothing major. Nothing life-threatening. A few bad dream, that's all. After: The only thought that remains is survival. Survival in a desolate, post-apocalyptic world. For herself. For her unborn baby. But help is scarce in a world where untold horrors exist around every corner, where food and water are in desperately short supply, and the only chance of happiness is half a world away.

About this title

Review:

'Adams has an excellent sense of timing, delivering gasp-inducing moments that punctuate her nightmare with verve. But it's Zoe's clear-eyed sense of self-preservation that will keep readers waiting for Adams' follow-up' --Kirkus

'This week s hot read is Alex Adam's debut novel. In White Horse, a deadly virus sweeps the US, killing off the population. Protagonist Zoe, alone and pregnant, she is left to fend for herself. The first of a Hunger Games-esque trilogy the rights have already been sold worldwide' --Grazia

Alex Adams offers bracing dystopian doom in her debut novel...Excellent writing makes her first-person story compulsive --Sunday Telegraph

'A hugely horrifying and emotional apocalyptic novel. White Horse is massively gripping...The narrative is perfectly paced: 'then' chapters drip-feed enough information to keep us reading without revealing the disease's origin, and the 'now' telling a tense tale of survival. Pregnant Zoe is a fantastic lead' Rowena Heal, SciFiNow --SciFiNow

'Excellent writing makes her first person story compulsive' --David Langford, Sunday Telegraph

Adams prose is nothing short of breathtaking --Bookzone, March issue

About the Author:

Alex Adams was born in Auckland, New Zealand, and currently lives in Portland, Oregon, with her family. Visit her website at AlexAdamsBooks.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0857209973
• ISBN 13: 9780857209979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400