![]() As their lives intertwine, Lucy is surprised to find herself falling for the older boy. And there are the S’ans, zombie-like infected survivors.Įverything changes, though, when Lucy is saved from a pack of dogs by Aidan, a member of a community of survivors. Worse, there are the Sweepers, white-suited men from the Compound on Roosevelt Island who round people up. The world after the plague is not a friendly one, mostly full of desperate survivors driven to theft. She occasionally sees people in the distance, but she keeps to herself, and has become good at hiding. She has built a home, and lives off acorn porridge, dried berries, and whatever else she can forage or hunt. Lucy “Lucky” Holloway is a 16-year-old survivor carving out an existence in a barely recognizable Central Park. ![]() ![]() Rather, the end comes with droughts and floods, plus a smallpox epidemic that wipes out 99 per cent of the global population in just a few months.Īshes, Ashes, however, is concerned with what happens after the end. In Jo Treggiari’s stunning new YA novel, the world ends with neither a bang nor a whimper. ![]()
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