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In The Dark Spaces
Paperback Edition: 1
The latest winner of the Ampersand Prize is a genre-smashing hostage drama about 14-year-old Tamara, who's faced with an impossible choice when she falls for her kidnappers. Yet this is no ordinary kidnapping. Tamara has been living on a star freighter in deep space, and
her kidnappers are terrifying Crowpeople - the only aliens humanity has ever encountered. No-one has ever survived a Crowpeople attack, until now - and Tamara must use everything she has just to stay alive. But survival always comes at a price, and there's no handbook for this hostage crisis. As Tamara comes to know the Crowpeople's way of life, and the threats they face from humanity's exploration into deep space, she realises she has an impossible choice to make. Should she stay as the only human among the Crows, knowing she'll never see her family again ...or inevitably betray her new community if she wants to escape? This ground-breaking thriller is the latest young-adult novel to win the Ampersand Prize, a stand-out entry with a blindingly original voice: raw, strange and deeply sympathetic. With its vivid and immersive world-building, this electrifying debut is The Knife of Never Letting Go meets Homeland, for the next generation of sci-fi readers.
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Featured in the Spring 2017 Teen Reads newsletter.
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Pages : 319
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
Publication date : 2017-08-01
Subjects: Awards, Fiction, NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Children's & Young Adult, NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults Shortlist 2018, NZ Children's / Young Adult, Ages Teen, NZ Classic Fiction (Children's / Young Adult)