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The Testament of Jessie Lamb: A Novel
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LENGTH8 hrs and 15 mins
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RELEASE DATE12-01-12
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Program TypeAudiobook
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Publisher's Summary
A rogue virus that kills pregnant women has been let loose in the world, and nothing less than the survival of the human race is at stake.
Some blame the scientists, others see the hand of God, and still others claim that humanity is reaping the punishment it deserves for years of arrogance and destructiveness. Jessie Lamb is an ordinary 16-year-old girl living in extraordinary times. As her world collapses, her idealism and courage drive her toward the ultimate act of heroism. Jessie wants her life to make a difference; but is she heroic, or is she, as her scientist father fears, impressionable, innocent, and incapable of understanding where her actions will lead?
Set in a world irreparably altered by an act of biological terrorism, The Testament of Jessie Lamb explores a young woman’s struggle for independence. As the certainties of her childhood are ripped apart, Jessie begins to question her parents’ attitudes, their behavior, and the very world they have bequeathed her.
Jane Rogers has written numerous books, including Mr. Wroe’s Virgins, Island and The Voyage Home. She has won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Writers’ Guild Fiction Book Award. A professor of writing at Sheffield Hallam University, she lives near Manchester, England.
©2012 Jane Rogers (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc
What the Critics Say
"Jane Rogers has captured Jessie's voice brilliantly, alternating a teenager's solipsism with a growing awareness of the wider world. Jessie's self-conviction is both admirable and infuriating, and the reader is torn between her clear, unequivocal conclusions and the intricate, heartfelt compromises of her parents." (Times Literary Supplement, London)
"The novel does not set up an elaborate apocalypse but astringently strips away the smears hiding the apocalypses we really face. Like Jessie's, it is a small, calm voice of reason in a nonsensical world." (Independent, London)
"A wonderful evocation of teenage confusion, passion, and idealism." (Daily Mail. London)