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Who Runs the World?
Virginia Bergin
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Description for Who Runs the World?
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: YFB; YFG; YFM. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Welcome to the Matriarchy. Sixty years after a virus has wiped out almost all the men on the planet, things are pretty much just as you would imagine a world run by women might be: war has ended; greed is not tolerated; the ecological needs of the planet are always put first. In two generations, the female population has grieved, pulled together and moved on, and life really is pretty good - if you're a girl. It's not so great if you're a boy, but fourteen-year-old River wouldn't know that. Until she met Mason, she thought ... Read more
Welcome to the Matriarchy. Sixty years after a virus has wiped out almost all the men on the planet, things are pretty much just as you would imagine a world run by women might be: war has ended; greed is not tolerated; the ecological needs of the planet are always put first. In two generations, the female population has grieved, pulled together and moved on, and life really is pretty good - if you're a girl. It's not so great if you're a boy, but fourteen-year-old River wouldn't know that. Until she met Mason, she thought ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509834037
SKU
V9781509834037
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Ref
99-5
About Virginia Bergin
Virginia Bergin learned to roller-skate with the children of eminent physicists. She grew up in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and went on to study psychology, but ruined her own career when, dabbling in fine art at Central Saint Martins, she rediscovered creative writing. Since then she has written poetry, short stories, film and TV scripts. Most recently she has been working in ... Read more
Reviews for Who Runs the World?
The heart of this novel lies with River's great-grandmother, as memories of the boyfriend who was killed by the plague and the baby brother she was forced to give up drive her to hide the XY, even at peril to herself and her family. It's that emotional core that gives Mason humanity and the reader the opportunity to care for ... Read more