The Exiled
By (Author) Sarah Daniels
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Penguin Books Ltd
7th November 2023
20th July 2023
United Kingdom
Young Adult
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction
823.92
Paperback
496
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 36mm
340g
The sequel to the global 2022 YA launch, The Stranded. A gripping near-future thriller for fans of Suzanne Collins, Emily St John Mandel, and Snowpiercer. Trust no one. It is six months since the Arcadia set sail for the first time in forty years. But this wasn't the freedom the inhabitants were hoping for. Esther Crossland did what she had to do, but it has left a trail of destruction in her wake. Now the wrecked ship is abandoned. Its inhabitants are in exile, trapped in sprawling make-shift shelters made up of warehouse, tents, shipping containers. Esther and Nik, architects of the rebellion, are on the run. Esther is in hiding, desperate to do something to help her people, and Nik seems to have abandoned all hope, on a journey taking him further and further from home. And neither of them want to face up to their true feelings about one another . . . Not only that, there is a new villain in town. With the fall of Commander Hadley, it's left to the ruthless Admiral Janek to deal with the traitors, and her own past is beginning to catch-up with her. Then the shaky ceasefire negotiated by General Lall, Nik's mum, falls apart. Nik and Esther find themselves in a world of betrayals and double crossings - a game of power, with no one to trust but themselves. It's time for the final showdown.
Sarah Daniels is an ex-archaeologist who escaped academia and now writes stories from her home in rural Lincolnshire. Her work has been published in various online magazines and has been nominated for Best British and Irish Flash Fiction and Best Small Fictions. This is her first novel and part of a duology.