After
By (Author) Pdraig Kenny
Walker Books Ltd
Walker Books Ltd
6th March 2025
6th March 2025
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Paperback
240
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 17mm
218g
The Last of Us meets Wall-E in this post-apocalyptic tale of family, hope and survival from a multi-award-winning author
Tell me again how the world ended.
Jen and her father are making their way across a deserted world after a technological collapse brought civilization as people knew it to an end. The Flood took out all all technology, but also many people who were connected to a central information hive. Those who are left behind must find each other and build a new life. But Jen's father isn't related to her by blood he is a human-appearing AI, a glitch in the system, and a secret that must be kept, even from those she wishes she could trust...
Exploring themes of what it means to be human, the value of every individual and where true danger lies in our technological creations, or the ones who create them this is a powerful and hopeful dystopian adventure for readers age 9+
Pdraig Kenny is an Irish writer from County Kildare, now living in Limerick. Previously an arts journalist, a teacher and a librarian's assistant, he now writes full-time. His first novel Tin and recent The Monsters of Rookhaven were both Waterstones Books of the Month. He has twice won the Children's Books Ireland Honour Award for Fiction, has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal and shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards.