Things We Didn't See Coming

Steven Amsterdam

Things We Didn't See Coming
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Country
United Kingdom
Published
4 August 2011
Pages
208
ISBN
9780099547044

Things We Didn’t See Coming

Steven Amsterdam

Opening on the eve of the millennium, when the world as we know it is still recognisable, we meet the nine-year-old narrator as he flees the city with his parents, just ahead of a Y2K breakdown.

Next he is a teenager with a growing criminal record, taking his grandparents for a Sunday drive. In a world transformed by battles over resources, he teaches them how to steal.

In time we see him struggle through strange, horrific and unexpectedly funny terrain as he goes about the no longer simple act of survival. Despite the chaos of his world, he keeps his eyes on the exit door, his heart open and his mind on what he thinks is going to happen next.

Longlisted for the Guardian first book award.

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