Abdi Taalib thought he was moving to Australia for a music scholarship. But after meeting the beautiful and brazen Tegan Oglietti, his world was turned upside down. Tegan's no ordinary girl - she died in 2027, only to be frozen and brought back to life in Abdi's time, 100 years later.
Now, all they want is for things to return to normal (or as normal as they can be), but the government has other ideas. Especially since the two just spilled the secrets behind Australia's cryonics project to the world. On the run, Abdi and Tegan have no idea who they can trust, and when they uncover startling new details about Project Ark, they realise thousands of lives may be in their hands.
A suspenseful, page-turning sequel to When We Wake that will keep readers on the edge of their seats and make them call into question their own ideas about morality - and mortality, too.
Pacy, relevant YA fiction
While We Run is the sequel to When We Wake, Healey's future Australia dystopia story. It is 100 years since Tegan Oglietti died she woke to a country struggling under climate change, where the borders are closed, and the Government is funding a cryonics program as part of plan to start new colonies away from Earth. Now, she and her friend Abdi are being coerced as spokespeople for the project. The dystopian elements of this book are genuinely chilling, because Healey's fictional Australia is not that far removed from ours. With climate change and current refugee policy so often in the news, While We Run feels hugely relevant. Abdi is a cool and perceptive narrator - perfect for the treatment of such contested topics - and the books frequent Beatles references were a bonus for me, too. Wish this had been there for me to read in school.
Amy, 25/09/2014
