Echoes from the Lost Ones — Nicola McDonagh

I'm not like the other girlygigs in Cityplace; I'm a bringer. I can sing to the only animals left in NotsoGreatBritAlbion and make them land. Adara, catcher of birds -that's what they call me and that's what I can do.

Now that the Agros have cut supplies and folk are near starved, I'd best keep shutums about my name though, or everyone will want a piece of me. I'd best creep and peep all stealthy-like to track down my bro-bro, snatched by Agro scum for who knows what.

Good job I'm trained in S.A.N.T. ways too, for I'll need all my roughhouse skills to keep the Agro spies, Nearly's and wolfies at bay until I find and bring home my bro and all the other missing Meeks.

I just wish I knew who or what is following my every move.

In this unsettling and mysterious vision of the future, animals are almost extinct and humans are subjugated by the sinister and secretive Agros; nothing is as it seems. And 17-year-old Adara must use all her courage and power battling against evil forces to save herself and those she loves. This is a coming of age tale with a difference. The inventive slang-derived language creates a fresh and dynamic style to create a truly compelling world inhabited by characters such as Clonies, Nearlymen, and S.A.N.T.S.