Claire North. (2016). The Sudden Appearance of Hope. Orbit.

Claire North. 2016. The Sudden Appearance of Hope. Orbit.

Claire North, The Sudden Appearance of Hope. Orbit, 2016.

Claire North. The Sudden Appearance of Hope. Orbit, 2016.

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   • bioText: Claire North is a pseudonym for Catherine Webb, a Carnegie Medal-nominated author whose first book was written when she was just fourteen years old. She went on to write several other novels in various genres, before publishing her first major work as Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, in 2014. It was a critically acclaimed success, receiving rave reviews and an Audie nomination, and was included in the Washington Post's Best Books of the Year list. Her next novel, Touch, was also in the Washington Post's Best Books of the Year, in 2015. Catherine currently works as a theatre lighting designer and is a fan of big cities, urban magic, Thai food and graffiti-spotting. She lives in London.
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The World Fantasy Award-winning thriller about a girl no one can remember, from the acclaimed author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K.
My name is Hope Arden, and you won't know who I am. But we've met before — a thousand times.
It started when I was sixteen years old. A father forgetting to drive me to school. A mother setting the table for three, not four. A friend who looks at me and sees a stranger.
No matter what I do, the words I say, the crimes I commit, you will never remember who I am.
That makes my life difficult. It also makes me dangerous.
The Sudden Appearance of Hope is a riveting and heartbreaking exploration of identity and existence, about a forgotten girl whose story will stay with you forever.

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   • source: New York Times on The Sudden Appearance of Hope
   • content: North has established a reputation for tense, dense, science fiction/fantasy-inflected thrillers that defy facile explanations... Simultaneously a tense conspiracy caper, a haunting meditation on loneliness and a brutally cynical examination of modern media... Well-paced, brilliant and balanced.
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   • source: Booklist (starred review) on The Sudden Appearance of Hope
   • content: Beautifully written, with a protagonist who is both tragic and heroic, the novel is remarkably powerful and deeply memorable, the latest in a string of terrific books from this newly emerged star in the genre-blending universe.
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   • source: NPR on The Sudden Appearance of Hope
   • content: The experience of sitting with it, sinking into it, aching along with Hope as her loneliness shapes and breaks her, was wonderful, painful and moving.
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   • source: Independent (UK) on The Sudden Appearance of Hope
   • content: Startlingly original
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   • source: Tech Insider on The Sudden Appearance of Hope
   • content: North isn't here to lecture you or rehash tired debates. Instead, she's produced something that feels at the same time absent and necessary: Smart, compelling fiction about this future that asks us to outsource ever-larger chunks of our selves to the cloud.
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   • source: The Forest of Books on The Sudden Appearance of Hope
   • content: This is a book which is incredibly compelling, and incredibly heartbreaking at times. I could not put it down.
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   • source: Bite the Book (Australia) on Touch
   • content: Seriously I cannot get over how amazingly good Claire North is. I could have read this book forever. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August was so smart, Touch is beyond genius. This will be one of THE books of 2015. Mark my words.
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   • source: C. L. Taylor, author of The Accident on Touch
   • content: Touch is a story within a story within a story and it's one of the cleverest, most compelling books I've read in a long time. The intoxicating voice, ingenious premise and intricate plot will have readers clamoring for a copy. Touch has bestseller written all over it and Claire North is one hell of a writer.
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   • source: James Dashner, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Maze Runner on The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
   • content: I don't say this lightly but The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is one of the top ten books I've ever read.
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    • source: M.R. Carey, on The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
    • content: An astonishing re-invention of the time travel narrative. Bold, magical and masterful.
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    • source: Booklist (Starred Review) on The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
    • content: Wonderful novel...held together by a compelling mystery involving nothing less than the end of the world itself. Beautifully written and structured...a remarkable book.
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    • source: Eric Brown, Guardian on The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
    • content: A subtle study of friendship, love and the complexity of existence.
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      Starred review from April 15, 2016
      North follows up her brilliant The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (2014) and Touch (2015) with the equally spellbinding story of a young woman with a devastating affliction. When she was 16, Hope Arden began to notice that people were forgetting her; her friends suddenly behaved as though they didn't know who she was, and her parents seemed surprised when she came home, as though they weren't aware they had a daughter. Soon the truth became apparent: the world was forgetting Hope. Hope turns to a life of crimethievery, after all, is a natural career path for someone who is almost immediately forgotten by everyone she comes into contact withuntil the death of another woman shows Hope that there may be a way to cure herself and become ordinary again. Like Harry August and Touch, this is a very risky novel, with a premise that could easily be dismissed by readers as ludicrous, if it weren't for the author's ability to make us believe. Beautifully written, with a protagonist who is both tragic and heroic, the novel is remarkably powerful and deeply memorable, the latest in a string of terrific books from this newly emerged star in the genre-blending universe.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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      December 1, 2015
      

      Since age 16, Hope Arden has been fading into anonymity, with her friends failing to recognize her and her mother setting the table for three, not four. Those are the perfect conditions for committing a crime; with a 50,000-copy first printing.

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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It started when I was sixteen years old. A father forgetting to drive me to school. A mother setting the table for three, not four. A friend who looks at me and sees a stranger.
No matter what I do, the words I say, the crimes I commit, you will never remember who I am.
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