Sunny At the End of the World

The Gold Coast, 2018. It should have taken longer than four days for the world to end, but within that time Sunny’s mum becomes a zombie, her dad dies, and Sunny goes on the run, looking for any place to survive. She finds refuge in her school library, where she meets Toby, a classmate, and Veronica, a baby Toby has been taking care of since her parents became zombies. But soon Toby and Veronica are taken away from Sunny too.

Sydney, 2034. Sunny is now a zombie and a prisoner in an underground facility. However, something different happened when she was bitten: although flesh is literally falling off her body, her mind remains intact, and so does her conscience. This means she is plagued with questions she doesn’t know how to answer – where is she now? How can she survive when everyone is intent on killing her? And what happened to Toby and Veronica?

Sunny At the End of the World comes five years after Steph Bowe’s sad passing from cancer at the age of 25 in January 2020. This novel was later discovered on her laptop, and is incredibly prophetic regarding the worldwide Covid pandemic. The novel questions how it all began and why, and contemplates conspiracy theories of biological warfare, all of which Sunny investigates. Written with wit, dark humour and warmth, Bowe’s posthumous novel is a beautiful and tragic story of family, of survival, and of appreciating everything we have only when we’ve lost it. For ages 14+.