SuitabookFreedom versus control
Juniper lives under a ruler who controls the city and disfavors people who do not conform; escape becomes necessary when the siblings’ difference is suspected.
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Nicola Penfold - Author
This is an adventurous, suspenseful environmental dystopia about siblings resisting control and learning what the wider world contains. It combines survival challenges with wonder, family loyalty and questions about freedom.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is an adventurous, suspenseful environmental dystopia about siblings resisting control and learning what the wider world contains. It combines survival challenges with wonder, family loyalty and questions about freedom.
Juniper lives under a ruler who controls the city and disfavors people who do not conform; escape becomes necessary when the siblings’ difference is suspected.
Nature has been excluded from the city, while the siblings encounter a rewilded wilderness containing plants, animals and danger.
Juniper and Bear undertake the journey together, with Juniper trying to protect her younger brother while searching for family and belonging.
Expect peril involving a deadly disease, surveillance, pursuit, threatening figures, wild animals, and struggles to find food and water. The siblings also face separation from loved ones and sustained uncertainty.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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