Sea-wreck Stranger series by Anna Mackenzie (#01~3)
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Overview: Anna Mackenzie writes contemporary and speculative young adult novels. The Sea-wreck Stranger, the first volume of her ‘Seawreck Stranger’ trilogy, won an Honour Award at the 2008 NZ Post Children’s Book Awards, was joint winner of the 2008 Sir Julius Vogel Award and was awarded a prestigious White Raven Award for outstanding children’s literature. The book has been published in both Australia and France. Its sequel, Ebony Hill, was shortlisted in the Young Adult Fiction category of the 2011 NZ Post Children’s Book Awards. The final title of the trilogy Finder’s Shore was published in 2011. Anna’s other titles include High Tide, Shadow of the Mountain and Out on the Edge.She has been awarded five Children’s Literature Foundation Notable Book Awards. Anna lives on a farm in Hawkes Bay with her family. She works as a magazine editor and teaches creative writing.
Genre: Fiction | Young Adult, Dystopia | New Zealand
#1 – Sea-wreck Stranger: Riveting post-apocalyptic YA fantasy, this first book in the award-winning Sea-Wreck Stranger trilogy is a thriller you can’t put down.Ness lives on Dunnett Island, where people are in constant fear of all things that come from the sea, having lost many of their folk to the ocean’s toxins. They have been hardened by fear, loss and superstition and live a restricted, hard-working life. Ness is imaginative and independent and questions and seeks meaning in a world that her elders would drain of all variety and joy. When Ness, Ty and Sophie defy orders and explore in a concealed cove, they discover a body washed ashore; a man who has been shipwrecked. Ness realises that his very existence heralds the possibility that there are other lands, other survivors, and also the possibility that the world’s seas are healing. She undertakes a foolhardy, courageous gamble when she decides to keep the stranger concealed and alive. All too soon she risks everything, including her own life, to help him escape when her close-minded, ‘witchhunting’ community discovers her secret.
#2 – Ebony Hill: ‘No matter how much you might want to leave a place, if it’s where you were raised it holds a piece of you it doesn’t easily give up.’ Ness is looking out to sea, waiting for the arrival of Dev. It’s been two years since the two set out in a dinghy, escaping the wrath of the Islanders of Dunnett; two years since their shrivelled and sun-battered bodies were coaxed back to health by Dev’s people. Ness’s new home, the city of Vidya, is in ruins; the air is unsafe, and the buildings scarred by fire. Towers loom empty and hollow. The community of Vidya is bravely building a new society and Ness yearns to find a place where she might belong. Sent to work on the home farms, Ness becomes caught up in surprise attacks and ongoing land battles. Working tirelessly in the medic room at Ebony Hill, she helps mend the wounded and worse, and suffers much hardship. Questioning the treatment of prisoners and witnessing the realities of war challenges Ness’s commitment to this brave new society. Will she find a place for herself here?
#3 – Finder’s Shore: A year on from the aggressive attacks against them, the farming community at Ebony Hill still shows the cracks. When it becomes clear the paramilitaries aren’t about to give up, hard decisions must be made. Can our heroine Ness risk going back to the Island of Dunnett, the home she narrowly escaped? If she does, what will she find? How will she deal with the legacy of her defection and the scars it has left on those she loves? This is a haunting exploration of belonging, of Ness’s attempts to make whole the tangled threads of her heart, of the stark and unsettling reality of ambition and greed.
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