Not Alone

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If you’re curious about the story just read a plot synopsis, cuz it’s not terrible, and possibly even sweet, it’s probably just not worth your time. It's something she never would have risked, if it weren't for a renewed glimmer of hope that her lost fiancé, Jack, may not have died during the storm as she previously believed. Then at the end after 3/4 of the book being about how dangerous and polluted outside was, they end up walking for days in an apparently less polluted Scotland. After a microplastic storm devastates the world and leaves Katie and her five-year-old son Harry as two of the few survivors in England, they must learn to live in isolation.

In a world very close to our own, a mother and her young son desperately fend for themselves in the confinement of their one bedroom flat. The more recent ones I've read focused on hurricanes and flooding, so it was a fresh change to bring plastics into the mix. The emotionally wrenching story of a mother’s fight to save her young son as they struggle across a toxic and hostile world. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Harry, her young son, has never left their apartment (Outside is alien enough to warrant a capital O).

Five years later, a stranger by the name of Sim appears out of the rain trying to escape a pack of wild dogs. It's a beautiful book about a brutal reality, with a heartbreakingly vulnerable, authentic mother-child relationship at its heart.

Would any mother, having found a caring couple to carry on living with, decide to make a life threatening journey to scotland in the faint hope that the man she loves is still alive and she can find him. We learn about Kate’s possibly stalling career and Leo’s plan to apply to acting schools against his mother’s wishes. Preaching on the challenges of mental illness doesn’t do much good if only the choir can relate or understand what is happening.It’s designed to make you cry at the end, but almost all the twists and plot points were over telegraphed or cliche that it was hard for me to care. Charlotte Mendelson, author of The Exhibitionist With hauntingly beautiful descriptions of the natural world, this challenging novel is tough and memorable. Many of the survivors she meets along the way are menacing, and she struggles to trust even those who deserve it, like Andy and Sue, an older couple who have taken up together after losing their families in the storm. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.

An exhilarating debut novel, tracing the harrowing journey of a mother and son fighting for survival and a future in a world ravaged by environmental disaster • “ Not Alone kept me breathless with tension… [A] gripping adventure story. I possibly could have tolerated all this as a perfectly mediocre three star read if it hadn’t been so long, but the fact that it just dragged on and on and on, holy fuck. Heartbreaking and dramatic, it was a little slow pacing with too much dwelling and details in some points and not enough in others. journey to a very distant location she knows nothing about to find her fiancee, ostensibly because she doesn't want her kid to be alone. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.The flashbacks to the apocalyptic storm came too late to create the tension I wanted to see, and I struggled to connect to the mother/child relationship (which had been one of the selling points). Katie ventures out in risky scouting missions for food to ensure their survival, resulting in a chance encounter with a group of survivors putting she and Harry at risk. We’re going to need that kind of hopeful grit if we’re to survive our own environmental catastrophe.