Illustrator: Sarah Davis-Goff
Genres: Genre Fiction
Raised by her mother and Maeve on Slanbeg, an island off the west coast of Ireland, Orpen has a childhood of love and stories by the fireside. But the stories grow darker, and the training begins. Ireland has been devoured by a ravening menace known as the skrake, and though Slanbeg is safe for now, the women must always be ready to run, or to fight.
When Maeve is bitten, Orpen is faced with a dilemma: kill Maeve before her transformation is complete, or try to get help. So Orpen sets off, with Maeve in a wheelbarrow and her dog at her side, in the hope of finding other survivors, and a cure. It is a journey that will test Orpen to her limits, on which she will learn who she really is, who she really loves, and how to imagine a future in a world that ended before she was born.
“fiercely feminist, highly imaginative”
- The Observer“You'll be terrified, fascinated and above all, uplifted by Orpen - a heroine to rival Philip Pullman's Lyra or The Passage's Amy.”
- Stylist“Bleakly beautiful. A raw emotional depth charge of a novel”
- M. R. Carey, author of The Girl With All The Gifts“Last Ones Left Alive is a debut novel of jaw-dropping skill and immense power, a shimmering dystopian vision but also a lucid meditation on tenderness, intimacy and courage. From the get-go, it gripped me, and since the last page I've been haunted”
- Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea“A stormer of a debut”
- Kieran Milwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink and Stars“Ferocious and chilling, but brimming with real humanity”
- Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies“Crisp and evocative. The dialogue crackles and sparks.”
- Donal Ryan, author of The Spinning Heart“Kept me awake until 2am. A triumph.”
- Louise O’Neill, author of Asking For It“A riveting novel”
- Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child“Last Ones Left Alive can at times feel like a distinctly feminist, Irish spin on Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend”
- Tobias Carroll“Davis-Goff’s painstaking account of the courage and resourcefulness of these three women dominates the first part of the book, but their solitary ordeal preludes a much grander unfolding of female empowerment, in which they must join forces with the banshees, a company of women who set out to defeat the skrake—and other monstrous beings—and give humanity another chance.”
- BookPage October Issue
Illustrator: Sarah Davis-Goff
Genres: Genre Fiction
Raised by her mother and Maeve on Slanbeg, an island off the west coast of Ireland, Orpen has a childhood of love and stories by the fireside. But the stories grow darker, and the training begins. Ireland has been devoured by a ravening menace known as the skrake, and though Slanbeg is safe for now, the women must always be ready to run, or to fight.
When Maeve is bitten, Orpen is faced with a dilemma: kill Maeve before her transformation is complete, or try to get help. So Orpen sets off, with Maeve in a wheelbarrow and her dog at her side, in the hope of finding other survivors, and a cure. It is a journey that will test Orpen to her limits, on which she will learn who she really is, who she really loves, and how to imagine a future in a world that ended before she was born.
“fiercely feminist, highly imaginative”
- The Observer“You'll be terrified, fascinated and above all, uplifted by Orpen - a heroine to rival Philip Pullman's Lyra or The Passage's Amy.”
- Stylist“Bleakly beautiful. A raw emotional depth charge of a novel”
- M. R. Carey, author of The Girl With All The Gifts“Last Ones Left Alive is a debut novel of jaw-dropping skill and immense power, a shimmering dystopian vision but also a lucid meditation on tenderness, intimacy and courage. From the get-go, it gripped me, and since the last page I've been haunted”
- Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea“A stormer of a debut”
- Kieran Milwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink and Stars“Ferocious and chilling, but brimming with real humanity”
- Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies“Crisp and evocative. The dialogue crackles and sparks.”
- Donal Ryan, author of The Spinning Heart“Kept me awake until 2am. A triumph.”
- Louise O’Neill, author of Asking For It“A riveting novel”
- Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child“Last Ones Left Alive can at times feel like a distinctly feminist, Irish spin on Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend”
- Tobias Carroll“Davis-Goff’s painstaking account of the courage and resourcefulness of these three women dominates the first part of the book, but their solitary ordeal preludes a much grander unfolding of female empowerment, in which they must join forces with the banshees, a company of women who set out to defeat the skrake—and other monstrous beings—and give humanity another chance.”
- BookPage October Issue
Tinder Press
Flatiron
March 7th, 2019
Treasure Entertainment
