Glimpse

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The city authorities have abandoned the D-Zone as damaged beyond repair. Its a no-go area where ongoing earthquakes threaten to destroy whats left. But Jonah and Bas and everyone else trying to survive in the devastation there cant leavetheyre illegals, without citizenship, without rights.

Jonah can see the quakesbefore the ground shudders and grinds, before the buildings fall. Glimpsing is a rare ability and a great survival asset. It has attracted the attention of the entertainment company GlimpseCorp and the cult movement People for a New Nation. Both are desperate to control and cash in on this remarkable power.

When Bas joins People for a New Nation and disappears, Jonah knows his friend is in great danger. And he knows that GlimpseCorp, with its reality TV program, offers a way to save himand a way to bring new hope to the people of the D-Zone.

But Jonahs plan puts everything, including his own life, at risk.

Glimpse is a compelling adventure, an intriguing story of conflict, power, manipulation, love and friendship, set in richly imagined world that is in many ways very much like our own.

Reviews

A brilliant novel with echoes of John Wyndhams The Chrysalids, its young protagonists show heart in a world of despair.

-- West Australian on The Bridge

Higgins threads the turns and twists of chaotic times with a sure handHiggins control of the development of her characters is admirable.

-- Magpies on The Bridge
Winner of the Text Prize, this is a powerful dystopian adventure about questioning authority, the complexities of war and enduring bonds. -- Fran Atkinson, Saturday Age/Sydney Morning Herald on The Bridge
Havoc is urgent, moving and believable. -- New Zealand Listener on Havoc
An outstanding teenage novelWorld class. -- RNZ Nine to Noon on Havoc
Brilliantly wrought story, the characterisation is subtle and nuanced, the moral underpinnings of the story are really something elseSo movingI burst into tears while I was reading it, its really beautifully done. -- Kate de Goldi on Havoc
An ideal introduction to dystopian fiction for young teensEngaging, thoughtful and elegantly written. * Books+Publishing *

Author Bio

Jane Higgins won the 2010 Text Prize for her debut novel The Bridge. She lives in Christchurch, New Zealand. Glimpse, her third novel for young adults, draws on her experience of the 201012 earthquakes, which killed 185 people and caused major damage to the city.