The Last Bookstore on Earth
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Summary
A heartbreaking and high-stakes story of queer love and survival set against the backdrop of a climate change apocalypse, this book is Station Eleven and The Last of Us meets All That’s Left in the World.
The world is about to end. Again.
It’s been a year since a devastating storm ripped Liz’s world apart. Haunted by the memories of those she couldn’t save, Liz holes up in the only place she felt safe before her world fell away: the bookstore where she used to work. Now she spends her days trading books for supplies and collecting stories from the remaining survivors who pass by.
Until she learns that another earth-shattering storm is coming . . . and everything changes.
Enter Maeve, a spiky out-of-towner who breaks into the bookstore looking for shelter one night. When Maeve’s secrets and Liz’s inner demons come back to haunt them both, they find themselves fighting for their lives and asking themselves one big question.
As the end of the world approaches, is there time for one final love story?
‘A thoroughly original, intimate and sometimes harrowing meditation on survival, forgiveness and learning how to love again at the almost end of the world’ Nicola Yoon, New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also a Star
‘Hopeful, thrilling, and twisty, The Last Bookstore on Earth is the snarky sapphic dystopian of our dreams’ Jennifer Dugan, author of Some Girls Do
‘Hauntingly beautiful’ Jarrod Shusterman, New York Times bestselling author of Dry
'I was hooked from the first page' Jenny Ireland, award-winning author of The First Move and The Boy Next Door
'Vivid' Publishers Weekly
'Stellar' Kirkus
The world is about to end. Again.
It’s been a year since a devastating storm ripped Liz’s world apart. Haunted by the memories of those she couldn’t save, Liz holes up in the only place she felt safe before her world fell away: the bookstore where she used to work. Now she spends her days trading books for supplies and collecting stories from the remaining survivors who pass by.
Until she learns that another earth-shattering storm is coming . . . and everything changes.
Enter Maeve, a spiky out-of-towner who breaks into the bookstore looking for shelter one night. When Maeve’s secrets and Liz’s inner demons come back to haunt them both, they find themselves fighting for their lives and asking themselves one big question.
As the end of the world approaches, is there time for one final love story?
‘A thoroughly original, intimate and sometimes harrowing meditation on survival, forgiveness and learning how to love again at the almost end of the world’ Nicola Yoon, New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also a Star
‘Hopeful, thrilling, and twisty, The Last Bookstore on Earth is the snarky sapphic dystopian of our dreams’ Jennifer Dugan, author of Some Girls Do
‘Hauntingly beautiful’ Jarrod Shusterman, New York Times bestselling author of Dry
'I was hooked from the first page' Jenny Ireland, award-winning author of The First Move and The Boy Next Door
'Vivid' Publishers Weekly
'Stellar' Kirkus
Reviews
I was hooked from the first page. The Last Bookstore on Earth has the kind of protagonist that you could follow anywhere. I fell in love. Not just with Liz and Maeve and the bookstore setting, but with the beautifully nuanced sibling relationship of Liz and Thea. This book is life, death and the perfect amount of humour. So beautifully written
Jenny Ireland