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My Name Is Monster

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After the Sickness has killed off her parents and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the arctic vault which has kept her alive. When she washes up on the coast of Scotland, everyone she knows is dead, and she believes she is alone in an empty world. Monster begins the long walk south, scavenging and learning the contours of this familiar land made new. Slowly, piece by piece, she begins to rebuild a life.

Until, one day, she finds a girl: feral and ready to be taught all that Monster knows. Changing her own name to Mother, Monster names the child after herself. As young Monster learns from Mother, she also discovers her own desires, realising that she wants very different things to the woman who made but did not create her.

Inspired by Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein, My Name Is Monster is a novel about power, about the things that society leaves imprinted on us when the rules no longer apply and about the strength and the danger of a mother's love.

©2019 Canongate Books Ltd (P)2019 Canongate Books Ltd
Dystopian Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
All stars
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Good Characters
Would have liked more back and forth of 2 the characters stories

A survival story with a twist

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I was there on the journey
The descriptions the words
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Brilliant

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