If you had the choice between living forever and never having children, or living for the natural term of your life and having kids, which would you choose? A gripping, powerful, move-you-to-tears dystopian novel.
Anna Covey is a 'surplus'. She should not have been born. In a society in which aging is no longer feared, and death is no longer an inevitability, children are an abomination. Like all surpluses, Anna is living in Grange Hall and learning how to make amends for the selfish act her parents committed in having her.
She is quietly accepting of her fate until one day when a new inmate arrives- a boy, who claims to know her parents. Anna's life is thrown into chaos. Is she brave enough to believe this mysterious boy?
A tense and utterly compelling story.
About Gemma Malley
Gemma Malley lives in South London and this is her first book for a teenage audience. She is already working on her second novel.
Review: A compelling read, if you've ever wondered why people make the choices they do about becoming a parent or not, this is a great insight. Plus a thought provoking view on what is like to be an orphan.
The Declaration
Anna Covey is a ‘Surplus’. She should not have been born. In a society in which ageing is no longer feared, and death is no longer an inevitability, children are an abomination.
Like all Surpluses, Anna is living in a Surplus Hall and learning how to make amends for the selfish act her parents committed in having her. She is quietly accepting of her fate until, one day, a new inmate arrives. Anna’s life is thrown into chaos. But is she brave enough to believe this mysterious boy?
A tense and utterly compelling story about a society behind a wall, and the way in which two young people seize the chance to break free.
My Feelings on The Declaration
I first read this book a few years ago after reading a review in a magazine. I honestly could not put it down. This is a story that you could see becoming reality. The characters are interesting and believable. I couldn't wait for the next story. I just had to know what had happened to Anna and Peter after escaping from Grange Hall and becoming Legals.
This book is the starting point for my project. The world has become a place where the Authorities and Pincent Pharma controlled the world, because of Longevity drugs and the dwindling food and energy supplies. People have been brainwashed into believing that no one should die apart from children that were born because of Underground people and Opt Outs. A lot of this book Anna wrote diary extract and it showed her thoughts and feelings through that.
The gripping story of two young people rebelling against a world which values immortality over happiness...
The year is 2140.
Peter and Anna are now living on the Outside as Legals. Impatient to see action as an agent in the Underground, Peter is tasked by Pip, its charismatic leader, to infiltrate Pincent Pharma Corporation and find out what's going on in the secret Longevity programme.
Peter must feign a reconciliation and win the trust of his grandfather, the powerful Richard Pincer, whose company, Pincent Pharma, is chasing the holy grail of modern science- a drug that will reverse ageing and make people look young again.
But his grandfather has his own plans for Peter- plans which involve Peter and Anna signing the Declaration and endorsing Longevity +. Richard Pincer will stop at nothing to get what he wants, even if it means ripping peter and Anna's new life apart.
"A chilling look at a dystopian future with echoes of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Brilliant"- InStyle Magazine.
Gemma Malley studied Philosophy at Reading University before working as a journalist. She edited several business magazines and contributed regularly to Company Magazine and the Sunday Telegraph before moving into the civil service in a senior communications role at Ofsted. The Declaration, her first novel for a teenage audience, was published to critical acclaim. The Resistance is the sequel. She lives in South London.
The Resistance
The year is 2140. Peter and Anna are now living on the Outside as Legals. As an agent in the Underground, Peter is tasked with infiltrating Pincent Pharma Corporation and find out what’s happening in the secret Longevity programme. Peter must feign a reconciliation and win the trust of his grandfather, Richard Pincent, one of the most powerful men on the planet, whose company, Pincent Pharma, is chasing the holy grail of modern science – a drug which will reverse ageing and make people look young again.
But his grandfather has his own plans for Peter – plans which involve Peter and Anna signing the Declaration and endorsing Longevity+. Richard Pincent will stop at nothing to get what he wants, even if it means ripping Peter and Anna’s new life apart.
At the heart of the organisation he most despises, Peter stumbles across something more sinister than he could ever have imagined, as powerful forces are gathering to crush the young couple’s dreams.
My thoughts on The Resistance:
This book isn't wrote in the same style as 'The Declaration' because there aren't is probably one diary extract but it is just as good. Lots of tradgedy but there is hope in the end.
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When a Pincent Pharma lorry is ambushed by the Underground, its contents come as a huge surprise - not drugs but corpses in a horrible state.
It appears Longevity isn't working and the drugs that are supposed to guarantee eternal youth are failing to live up to their promise.
A virus is sweeping the country, killing many in its wake, and Longevity is powerless to fight it. When Richard Pincent of Pincent Pharma suggests that the Underground has released the virus, something has to be done to alert everyone to the truth and put the story straight once and for all.
It appears Longevity isn't working and the drugs that are supposed to guarantee eternal youth are failing to live up to their promise.
A virus is sweeping the country, killing many in its wake, and Longevity is powerless to fight it. When Richard Pincent of Pincent Pharma suggests that the Underground has released the virus, something has to be done to alert everyone to the truth and put the story straight once and for all.
My thoughts on The Legacy:
This is another book that you can't put down. I started it Friday night and had finished it Saturday night. This book is the last in the series, it has a unsuspecting twist and I think the ending is a good one. You aren't left without knowing what happens like in some books.
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