Matched
By (Author) Ally Condie
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Penguin Books Ltd
3rd October 2011
2nd June 2011
United Kingdom
Young Adult
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
384
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 23mm
266g
The biggest YA debut of the year - Never Let Me Go meets The Handmaid's Tale for the 21st Century On her seventeenth birthday, Cassia meets her Match. Society dictates he is her perfect partner for life. Except he's not. In Cassia's society, Officials decide who people love. How many children they have. Where they work. When they die. But, as Cassia finds herself falling in love with another boy, she is determined to make some choices of her own. And that's when her whole world begins to unravel . . .
Ally Condie used to teach high school English in Utah and in upstate New York. Currently, she is employed by her three little boys, who keep her busy playing trucks and building blocks.