Discover the haunting heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy
set in a deserted world. Deep underground thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage.
Above ground a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus? Watched over by
guards the women have no memory of how they got there no notion of time and only vague
recollection of their lives before. But as the burn of electric light merges day into night
and numberless years pass a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone and outcast in the
corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the
strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men. WITH A NEW
INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH MAN BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE WATER CURE
