Gillian Murray Kendall at BEA!
22nd April 2014
Debut YA author Gillian Murray Kendall joined the Ravenstone team last Saturday at Book Expo American, where she undertook a marathon greeting session, signing all 150 exclusive giveaway copies of The Garden of Darkness in under 25 minutes! Fans fearing for the well-being of Gillian’s hand need not worry though: Gillian’s been in touch to let us know that it is almost recovered and to thank everyone who queued up to say hello and get their hands on a copy (in particular one young fan who told her “I was reading while I was waiting in line, and this is going to be my favourite book!”). Check out some pictures of Gillian and the team in action:
Taking place in a post-apocalyptic world in which the pandemic SitkaAZ13 – or ‘The Pest’ – has killed their families, The Garden of Darkness follows the story of 15 year old cheerleader Claire and 13 year old chess club member Jem as they are thrown together; realizing that if either of them want to live to adulthood they must find a cure.
Set against a hostile landscape of rotting cities and a countryside infected by corpses and roamed by voracious diseased survivors, Jem and Claire make their bid for life and, with the group of fellow child-travellers growing, embark on a journey to find the cure. But as a shadowy adult broadcasts across the radio to all orphaned children, promising to protect and cure them, can they trust everything in this new world, or will they discover that friendship has its own kind of healing power?
The Garden of Darkness publishes summer 2014.