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Sign up todayLast Ones Left Alive
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Learn more“Combines the spare poetry of The Road with the dizzying pace of 28 Days Later.” —Jennie Melamed, author Gather the Daughters
“Davis-Goff writes language evocative of melancholy longing in a landscape both beautiful and brutal, and she's created the distinctive voice of a first-person narrator who is both confident in her abilities and filled with fear and grief…successfully blends horror, lyrical prose, and feminist themes.”— Kirkus
Remember your just-in-cases. Beware tall buildings. Always have your knives.
Raised in isolation by her mother and Maeve on a small island off the coast of a post-apocalyptic Ireland, Orpen’s life has revolved around training to fight a threat she’s never seen. More and more she feels the call of the mainland, and the prospect of finding other survivors.
But that is where danger lies, too, in the form of the flesh-eating menace known as the skrake.
Then disaster strikes. Alone, pushing an unconscious Maeve in a wheelbarrow, Orpen decides her last hope is abandoning the safety of the island and journeying across the country to reach the legendary banshees, the rumored all-female fighting force that battles the skrake.
But the skrake are not the only threat…
Sarah Davis-Goff's Last Ones Left Alive is a brilliantly original imagining of a young woman's journey to discover her true identity.
Sarah Davis-Goff's writing has been published in The Irish Times, The Guardian and LitHub. Last Ones Left Alive is her debut novel. She was born and lives in Dublin.
Reviews
“A riveting novel. The fierce, unflinching voice of Orpen stayed with me long after I finished the last page. It is often grim, even terrifying, but through it all I was reminded that even in the darkest times, love and human decency can survive.”
—Eowyn Ivey, bestselling author of The Snow Child and To the Bright Edge of the World
“Bleakly beautiful. A raw emotional depth-charge of a novel.”
—M.R. Carey, bestselling author of The Girl With All the Gifts (and its subsequent film adaptation)
“A debut novel of jaw-dropping skill and immense power, a shimmering dystopian vision but also a lucid meditation on tenderness, intimacy and courage. From the get-go, it gripped me, and since the last page I've been haunted.”
—Joseph O'Connor, #1 internationally bestselling author of Star of the Sea
“Sarah's writing is crisp and evocative, her dialogue crackles and sparks, and her gifts of imagination and narrative verve, and her empathy and compassion, are present on every page. This dystopian future Ireland will unnerve and thrill and intrigue readers the world over.”
—Donal Ryan, author of The Spinning Heart, long-listed for the Booker Prize and winner of the Guardian First Book Award
“A confident, assured debut from one of the most exciting new voices on the Irish literary scene. Last Ones Left Alive is beautifully written and perfectly paced, keeping me awake until 2am as I promised myself that I would read "just one more chapter". It's a triumph.”
—Louise O'Neill, #1 international bestselling author of Asking For It
“Last Ones Left Alive is everything I hoped it would be: ferocious and chilling, but brimming with real humanity. This is a book that's brave, brutal, and brilliant.”
—Lisa McInerney, author of Glorious Heresies, winner of the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliot Prize
“I will be cursing Last Ones Left Alive for seriously troubling dreams for weeks to come.”
—Patrick Gale, Costa nominated bestselling author of A Place Called Winter
“Whizzed through #LastOnesLeftAlive in one sitting last night as it really doesn't allow you to read it at anything other than full tilt. Like a relentless John Christopher with undead proboscidean monsters.”
—Dom Nolan, author of the upcoming novel Past Life
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