A startlingly unique and powerfully affecting novel from a remarkable up-and-coming voice in speculative fiction. It is the story of a lost generation and a boy who just wants to be one of us.
They call it the plague
A generation of children born with mutations so extreme that society brands them monsters
They call it a home
But it's a place of neglect and forced labour
They call him Dog
But Enoch is just a boy who wants to be treated as normal
They call them freaks
They might be right
When a local girl is murdered, and a plague child is blamed, mistrust and suspicion erupts in a small town. But unknown to the normals, the plague generation have started to develop strange powers - and it might only take a single spark to ignite a revolution.
'An amazing tour-de-force . . . One of Us rattled me to the core. An engrossing, emotionally-charged book and a work of terrible beauty. I loved it, heart and soul'
John Dixon, Bram Stoker award-winning author of Phoenix Island
A beautifully constructed tragic tale of prejudice and where it leads. Several times through the course of listening to this audiobook, my heart broke into tiny pieces for things that happened.
I cannot recommend this book enough