Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived. In THE BOY ON THE BRIDGE, M. R. Carey returns to the world of THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS, the phenomenal word-of-mouth bestseller which is now a critically acclaimed film starring Sennia Nanua, Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton and Paddy Considine.
The Boy on the Bridge is MR Carey’s highly-awaited follow-up The Girl with All the Gifts which was the runaway success story of 2014. The first book was a horror/science-fiction novel set after the end of the world and telling the story of a young zombie girl realising how powerful she is – and how dangerous. One of the most intriguing mysteries of that novel was the abandoned mobile laboratory, the Rosalind Franklin, and The Boy on the Bridge tells the suspenseful and intriguing story of that laboratory and its crew as they traverse a ruined and plague-ridden world. It’s a fantastic horror novel in its own right and compelling companion to its predecessor. It certainly puts The Walking Dead to shame, I can tell you that much.
