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The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Jane Rogers
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Description for The Testament of Jessie Lamb
Paperback. Would you fight to save the world your parents have destroyed? Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 218. 320 pages. One choice. One chance to make a difference. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 194 x 127 x 21. Weight: 218.
Winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award 2012
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011
Women are dying in their millions.
Some blame scientists, some see the hand of God. As she watches her world collapsing, Jessie Lamb decides she wants to make her life count.
Would you let your daughter die if it would save the human race?
The Testament of Jessie Lamb is the story of one daughter's heroism and one father's love.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857864185
SKU
V9780857864185
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-4
About Jane Rogers
Jane Rogers has written eight novels including Her living Image (Somerset Maugham Award), Mr Wroe's Virgins (Guardian Fiction Prize runner-up), Promised Lands (Writers Guild Best Novel Award), Island (Orange long-listed), and The Voyage Home. She has written drama for radio and TV, including an award-winning adaptation of Mr Wroe's Virgins for BBC2. Her radio work includes both original drama and Classic Serial adaptations. She has taught writing at the University of Adelaide, Paris Sorbonne IV, and on a radio-writing project in Eastern Uganda. She is Professor of Writing at Sheffield Hallam University, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Jane lives on the edge of the moors in Lancashire.
Reviews for The Testament of Jessie Lamb
You'll be blown away by this.
Independent
By far the most moving of all the 138 [Booker] entries.
Chris Mullin
Evening Standard
A dark, powerful and disturbing story asking difficult questions about science, sex, and survival.
Michele Roberts
Like The Handmaid's Tale colliding with Children Of Men.
Herald
Jane Rogers has captured Jessie's voice brilliantly, alternating a teenager's solipsism with a growing awareness of the wider world . . . The reader is torn between her clear, unequivocal conclusions and the intricate, heartfelt compromises of her parents.
TLS
The scary thing about this novel is that the questions it raises are so close to home . . . The novel does not set up an elaborate apocalypse, but astringently strips away the smears hiding the apocalypses we really face. Like Jessie's, it is a small, calm voice of reason in a nonsensical world.
Independent
Marvellous.
Daily Mail
Based on a premise so terrifyingly plausible you're half-afraid the book might fall into the hands of some ruthless bio-terrorists with the keys to an IVF lab...Rogers brilliantly characterises the self-centred logic of an obstreperous teenager
Alfred Hickling
Guardian
This is an Atwoodian exploration of new technologies and implications for womankind
Emma Hagestadt
Independent
Terrifyingly plausible . . . a well-written and thought provoking read . . . This is what good science fiction should be: smart, realistic, engaging
Curious Book Fans
Independent
By far the most moving of all the 138 [Booker] entries.
Chris Mullin
Evening Standard
A dark, powerful and disturbing story asking difficult questions about science, sex, and survival.
Michele Roberts
Like The Handmaid's Tale colliding with Children Of Men.
Herald
Jane Rogers has captured Jessie's voice brilliantly, alternating a teenager's solipsism with a growing awareness of the wider world . . . The reader is torn between her clear, unequivocal conclusions and the intricate, heartfelt compromises of her parents.
TLS
The scary thing about this novel is that the questions it raises are so close to home . . . The novel does not set up an elaborate apocalypse, but astringently strips away the smears hiding the apocalypses we really face. Like Jessie's, it is a small, calm voice of reason in a nonsensical world.
Independent
Marvellous.
Daily Mail
Based on a premise so terrifyingly plausible you're half-afraid the book might fall into the hands of some ruthless bio-terrorists with the keys to an IVF lab...Rogers brilliantly characterises the self-centred logic of an obstreperous teenager
Alfred Hickling
Guardian
This is an Atwoodian exploration of new technologies and implications for womankind
Emma Hagestadt
Independent
Terrifyingly plausible . . . a well-written and thought provoking read . . . This is what good science fiction should be: smart, realistic, engaging
Curious Book Fans