The Testament of Jessie Lamb

In a chilling future, one 16-year-old girl is driven to the ultimate act of heroism.

The Testament of Jessie Lamb

, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is the breakout novel from award-winning author Jane Rogers. Its cunningly drawn characters and riveting vision of a dystopic future fraught with difficult moral choices will make

The Testament of Jessie Lamb

an instant favorite for fans of Kazuo Ishiguro’s

Never Let Me Go

, Margaret Atwood’s

The Handmaid’s Tale

, Suzanne Collins’s

The Hunger Games

, and Brian K. Vaughan’s

Y: The Last Man

.

“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.” —The Independent