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Sunny At the End of the World
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Sunny At the End of the World

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You're not going to like this part. I don't like this part. I don't know how I'm going to explain it to you, and have it make any sense.

In 2018, seventeen-year-old Sunny and Toby are on the run after zombies have destroyed most of the adults in their world. Cut to 2034 when Sunny is being held in an underground facility.

What happened? Was it aliens, a genocide, a video game, biological terrorism, a totalitarian takeover? And who can infiltrate the facility and release the surviving prisoners? The tables will be turned more than once in this thrilling and thought-provoking novel.

With Steph Bowe's sad passing at the age of twenty-five, in 2020, we lost a truly wonderful author of three smart, funny YA novels. Her mother and sister discovered a manuscript on her computer- the book you have in your hands. Steph was always wise beyond her years, with the power to access other worlds. Somehow, in Sunny at the End of the World, she predicted an 'outbreak' much like the one that changed our world, after she was gone...

With her trademark humour, endearing characters and brilliant storytelling, Steph Bowe has left us a novel that helps to make sense of the rapidly changing world we live in.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Text Publishing
Country
Australia
Date
4 March 2025
Pages
272
ISBN
9781922790767

You're not going to like this part. I don't like this part. I don't know how I'm going to explain it to you, and have it make any sense.

In 2018, seventeen-year-old Sunny and Toby are on the run after zombies have destroyed most of the adults in their world. Cut to 2034 when Sunny is being held in an underground facility.

What happened? Was it aliens, a genocide, a video game, biological terrorism, a totalitarian takeover? And who can infiltrate the facility and release the surviving prisoners? The tables will be turned more than once in this thrilling and thought-provoking novel.

With Steph Bowe's sad passing at the age of twenty-five, in 2020, we lost a truly wonderful author of three smart, funny YA novels. Her mother and sister discovered a manuscript on her computer- the book you have in your hands. Steph was always wise beyond her years, with the power to access other worlds. Somehow, in Sunny at the End of the World, she predicted an 'outbreak' much like the one that changed our world, after she was gone...

With her trademark humour, endearing characters and brilliant storytelling, Steph Bowe has left us a novel that helps to make sense of the rapidly changing world we live in.

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Text Publishing
Country
Australia
Date
4 March 2025
Pages
272
ISBN
9781922790767
 
Book Review

Sunny At the End of the World
by Steph Bowe

by Aurelia Orr, Feb 2025

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+.

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