Earth Girl (Signed PB)

Edwards, Janet

ISBN 10: 0007443498 / ISBN 13: 9780007443499

Published by Harper Voyager, London, 2012

About this Item

First edition first UK PB printing. Paperback book is tight clean and square. Boards sharp and clean, title gilt perfect. Text block clean. The pages are crisp and unblemished. Feels unread. Fine condition. Signed by author with dedication to title page. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. A super example of this first UK paperback printing, Signed by author with dedication to title page. "To Theresa / Best wishes / Janet Edwards".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Earth Girl (Signed PB)
• Publisher: Harper Voyager, London
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007443498
• ISBN 13: 9780007443499
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A sensational YA science fiction debut. 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.

About the Author

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 has a husband, a son, a lot of books, and an aversion to housework.