There were several large cracks in the concrete surface, once white, now a dirty gray streaked with black. The library itself was almost as old-a plaque coming away from the wall told of an opening ceremony in 1978-and crumbling badly. It was joined on to rambling dilapidated buildings which had been council offices but were currently used as a warehouse. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY WAS IN a quiet, gloomy street facing the park.
And when sinister secrets are revealed, Rob is forced to make a choice: stay in the County, where everything is a perfect lie, or return to the Conurb, where life is hard, horrible, and real. There he meets another boy who introduces Rob to the very different society, and all the wondrous things that come with it.īut even though Rob wants to believe that the County is a utopia, he begins to learn about the darkness that lurks beneath the smiles of his new family and friends. Rob has always lived in the Conurb, but after he is sent to a terrible boarding school, he decides his only option is to take a chance and cross the Barrier into the unknown world of the County. The other is the County-a land of green fields and beautiful mansions, where the people have turned back the clock to a pristine past.
One is the Conurb-a sprawling, modern city where technology rules and people live with only the bare minimum they need to survive.
In the future, the world has been divided into two societies. In a world where two nations rule all, Rob must find a way to live among them both in this futuristic story from the author of the Tripods series.
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