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Not Alone

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Katie forages while Harry, who was born after the storm and knows nothing of life Before, lives in relative fear of anything outside the confines of their small London flat. Towards the end, I was feeling an impatience to reach their final destination and find out if Katie’s fiancé was alive after all, but once I reached the end, it all felt worth it. At a time when stepping outside could kill you, Harry is kept indoors at all costs, never venturing beyond the door to their one-bedroom flat. We know Katie is raising a little boy named Harry and they've made their little apartment their entire world, and she's been keeping him safe and fed for 5 years. Not Alone is an immersive, atmospheric reading experience with descriptions of a toxic world that are as gorgeous as they are harrowing.

And during the times that I wasn't reading it, my mind was still on Katie and Harry, hoping beyond hope that they were going to make it, that they were going to be okay. Confined to their small flat, and only facing the hazards of the outside world to hunt and to forage for food. The situation is scary as I could really see this happening to us, (although not AS crazy and bad), it hits close to home for sure. The day of the storm, Jack had been working at a medical clinic in London, and was separated from Katie.She decides to take Harry from all he’s ever known and go on a journey to attempt to find Jack and make a better life for Harry. Would any mother, having found a caring couple to carry on living with, decide to make a life threatening journey to scotland in the faint hope that the man she loves is still alive and she can find him. I’m worn out and haggard, as if I accompanied Katie and Harry on their trek across the post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements to users by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. I possibly could have tolerated all this as a perfectly mediocre three star read if it hadn’t been so long, but the fact that it just dragged on and on and on, holy fuck. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here. I will not tell you whether they find Jack, but I will tell you that Sarah Jackson manages to keep hope alive for the reader and in the end, that desperate spark of hope is rewarded. I wanted her to succeed, to make it, the same way I want that for me, the same way I want that for my friends, and there aren’t a whole lot of books or media that have pulled that feeling out of me.Not Alone is a sharp exploration of environmental apocalypse—and a celebration of pure, boundless love that can survive anything. Katie keeps them alive by foraging for food, adhering to strict decontamination procedures, and avoiding contact with the outside world as much as possible. Since giving birth alone in her barricaded flat, gradually giving up hope for Jack, Katie lives solely for Harry.

On top of the bleakness, the portrayal of trauma after rape is also fantastic, but it’s too real and I’m terrified to get to the rape scene if I’m already this disturbed by the content.I felt a lot of the going back and forth (duel timelines) from BEFORE the storm was incredibly boring and I really didn't care for what happened 5 years before the storm, between Katie and Jack. Years after a mocroplastic mega storm killed much of the population, we meet Katie, surviving in an apartment with her son Harry, who has never known a world other than the current state it is in. Katie is a "mama bear" in the most extreme circumstances imaginable, with her fierce love for Harry and desire to protect him motivating every risky, impossible choice she has to make.

She meets people who are very kind and risk their lives for her, but "they're strangers" (even though she spent days with them and left her son with them at one point) so it's not good enough. Then at the end after 3/4 of the book being about how dangerous and polluted outside was, they end up walking for days in an apparently less polluted Scotland. Being stuck inside the 1 bedroom flat, because the air outside could kill you, gave me a sense of the claustrophobia they must have felt (a bit on the nose of recent years . Her job has taken her all around the UK, scrambling through woodland, paddling up rivers, squelching through… More about Sarah K. Katie is pained by her choices, and the shortcomings of the world she is raising her child in, and we can feel that emotion in the novel.Coincidentally, I was reading Greta Thunberg’s Climate Book, the day I received an advance copy of Jackson’s novel. The details and descriptions were incredible, as though the author had experienced the events herself.

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