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The Upper World

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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE 2022*

'A superbly original debut' -
Guardian

'A time-twisting, mind-bending thrill ride . . . I loved it!' - Holly Jackson, author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

'Impossible to put down' - The Independent

ONE GLIMPSE OF A TERRIFYING FUTURE.
ONE CHANCE TO CHANGE EVERYTHING.


After suffering a knock to the head, 15-year-old Esso experiences a chilling vision: that night he will witness the violent deaths of everyone he knows. He writes off the out-of-body experience as a strange dream - until a series of frightening coincidences prove that the vision is just hours away from coming true.

There is only one person who can help him rewrite the future.

The trouble is, she hasn't been born yet . . .

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ACADEMY AWARD WINNER DANIEL KALUUYA

'A rollercoaster of a story . . . Orangeboy with an Inception-style twist.' - Kat Ellis

'Ambitious and highly addictive' - The Bookseller


'This is a book I will return to time and time again' - Caleb Femi

'So happy this exists' - Daniel Kaluuya, Academy Award-winning actor

About the author

Femi Fadugba is an EdTech CEO, sci-fi writer and Dummett Fellow at New College, Oxford. He has given talks to over 10,000 students on topics ranging from time travel physics to the process of writing his debut novel, The Upper World (coming to Netflix soon!). In prior lives, Femi worked as a science tutor, management consultant and solar salesman, having studied at UPenn and Oxford, where he published in the field of Quantum Computing.

Summary

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZE 2022*

'A superbly original debut' -
Guardian

'A time-twisting, mind-bending thrill ride . . . I loved it!' - Holly Jackson, author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

'Impossible to put down' - The Independent

ONE GLIMPSE OF A TERRIFYING FUTURE.
ONE CHANCE TO CHANGE EVERYTHING.


After suffering a knock to the head, 15-year-old Esso experiences a chilling vision: that night he will witness the violent deaths of everyone he knows. He writes off the out-of-body experience as a strange dream - until a series of frightening coincidences prove that the vision is just hours away from coming true.

There is only one person who can help him rewrite the future.

The trouble is, she hasn't been born yet . . .

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ACADEMY AWARD WINNER DANIEL KALUUYA

'A rollercoaster of a story . . . Orangeboy with an Inception-style twist.' - Kat Ellis

'Ambitious and highly addictive' - The Bookseller


'This is a book I will return to time and time again' - Caleb Femi

'So happy this exists' - Daniel Kaluuya, Academy Award-winning actor

Report

'A startlingly original thriller . . . one of the most compelling debuts of the year' The Observer

Product details

Authors Femi Fadugba
Publisher Penguin Books Uk
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 19.08.2021
Subject Children's and young people's books > Young people's books from 12 years of age
 
EAN 9780241505618
ISBN 978-0-241-50561-8
Pages 400
Age Recommendation ages 12 to 18
Dimensions (packing) 12.9 x 19.8 x 3.5 cm
 
Series Die The-Upper-World-Reihe > 1
The Upper World
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