2024
upper secondary Key Stage 4, ages 14 -17, Kendrick Karen, afterlife, dystopia, teen pregnancy,
Girl is dead.
She knows she is dead because she remembers dying. The afterlife is not what she had expected – she has awoken into a nightmare, in which everything seems hell-bent on killing her all over again. She is the only one who remembers what life was like before death and she has no idea why.
Also, Girl is pregnant and that shouldn’t be in this setting. The birth of the baby will change everything about this world. It may end it.
The only way to beat the game is to keep moving forwards, even if it means the end of the world.
We get to the end of the novel. The baby is born. The world changes but doesn’t end. There may be a sequel.
Boy is ordered to kill her but in the end he doesn’t want to. Ali becomes at once her friend and her protégé. His presence in the novel shows a softer side of Girl.
Grim in places, Karen Kendrick’s Afterwards is also fast-paced and emotionally challenging. It is a larger font novel with 296 pages.
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