The old neighborhood is now a dust-covered ruin there is no noise, no electricity, and, at first, not another soul around. After drowning, Seth awakens in the suburban London neighborhood where he lived before his family relocated to the Pacific Northwest. Seth Wearing, age 16, dies in the opening pages of this complex, ambitious novel from Ness (A Monster Calls) and, arguably, that isn't the worst thing that happens to him.
What’s going on? And why is it that whenever he closes his eyes, he falls prey to vivid, agonizing memories that seem more real than the world around him? Seth begins a search for answers, hoping that he might not be alone, that this might not be the hell he fears it to be, that there might be more than just this. But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely abandoned. So how is he here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. A boy named Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him.
From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life - or perhaps afterlife - of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world.
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