Anything that isn't this
By: Chris Priestley
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781471404641; 9781471404740
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Teenage boys; Man-woman relationships; Love; Juvenile fiction; Fiction; Coming of age; Science fiction; Authoritarianism; Dystopias
Other titles: Anything that is not this
Description: Seventeen-year-old Frank Palp lives in a grim little apartment, in a grim little building, in an exceedingly grim (and rather large) city. Cobbled streets and near-destroyed bridges and war-damaged houses stand alongside post-war, characterless, concrete hutches. Frank generally hates his life and the idiots he's surrounded by, and yet he is in love. A love so pure and sparkling and colourful, Frank feels sure it is 'meant to be'. He believes his love is a reward for all the terrible grey that he is surrounded by - which would be great, if only the girl in question knew he existed. And then one day he finds a message, in a bottle. A wish, for 'anything that isn't this.' He believes the girl who wrote this is surely his soul mate-and now he just needs to find her.