Her entry begins:
What I’m reading usually depends on what else is happening in my life. At the moment I’m feeling stressed (a book that’s turning out harder to write than I thought) and at these times I turn to what I call “comfort reading”; certain books that I have read and reread throughout my life and which provide me with mysterious reassurance. Examples include TH White’s The Once and Future King, the novels of PG Wodehouse, anything written by Barbara Pym and all twenty astounding volumes of Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series.About The One Safe Place, from the publisher:
Right now I’m traveling again with...[read on]
In this near-future dystopia with echoes of The Giver and Among the Hidden, Tania Unsworth has created an unsettling page-turner—fast-paced and filled with dread—that’s wholly satisfying and startlingly original.Visit Tania Unsworth's website.
Devin doesn’t remember life before the world got hot; he has grown up farming the scorched earth with his grandfather in their remote valley. When his grandfather dies, Devinheads for the city. Once there, among the stark glass buildings, he finds scores of children, just like him, living alone on the streets. They tell him rumors of a place for abandoned children, with unlimited food and toys and the hope of finding a new family. But only the luckiest get there.
An act of kindness earns Devin an invitation to the home, but it’s soon clear that it’s no paradise. As Devin investigates the intimidating administrator and the zombie-like sickness that afflicts some children, he discovers the home’s horrific true mission. The only real hope is escape, but the place is as secure as a fortress.
Fans of dystopian fiction and spine-chilling adventure will devour The One Safe Place; its haunting themes will resonate long after readers have turned the final page.
The Page 69 Test: The One Safe Place.
Writers Read: Tania Unsworth.
--Marshal Zeringue
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