Runners

About the Book: 

Two children on the run...

In a society where global warming has resulted in outright anarchy and the vulnerable are denied help, the search for a safe haven falls to fourteen-year-old Sid. But is anywhere secure in a world where everyone only looks out for themselves?

Award-winning author Ann Kelley paints a disturbing picture of a dystopian future in which two parentless children must keep running in order to survive. In a world not so very far removed from our own, they can trust nobody. Not even each other.

Reviews: 

Tough, tense and moving... Runners dramatises a society with its back to the wall, which has shucked off any pretence of caring for the weak and vulnerable. It’s a disturbing and compulsive read that makes you realise that not so very much needs to change for this to happen here. HELEN DUNMORE

Kelley... creates very vivid and engaging young chararcters. KATE SAUNDERS, THE TIMES

About the Author:

ANN KELLEY is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once nearly played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poetry and photographs, a book of photos of St Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her husband and cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where they have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightning strike and the roof blowing off.