About this item
Three years after a plague has wiped out the male population, twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence, and pursued by Cole's own ruthless sister, Billie -- all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won't be preyed on as a reproductive resource or a sex object or a stand-in son. Someplace like home.
About the Author
Lauren Beukes is a novelist, TV scriptwriter, documentary maker, comicswriter and occasional journalist.She won the 2011 Arthur C Clarke Award for her novel Zoo City, set in afantastical Johannesburg where guilt manifests as spirit animal familiars. Herprevious works include Moxyland, a dystopian cyberpunk thriller set in CapeTown under corporate apartheid. She helped create South Africa's first half-hour animated TV show, URBO: TheAdventures of Pax Afrika, and has written kids animated shows for DisneyUK and Millimages in France.Follow her on Twitter: @laurenbeukesPhoto Casey Crafford
