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Snails
2016
First Published
3.28
Average Rating
300
Number of Pages

This is a short story about Matt and Kate during their time at University of Nottingham, written for the university's alumni magazine. It takes place during the 2039 timeline, during the events of The Next Together. The author described the story as taking place "between Kate and Matt’s first meeting, and the point when everything goes to hell. So… Chapter 2? :’)" Matt and Kate are outside collecting snails for a project, when they discover a crate of fireworks. Things go downhill from there...

Avg Rating
3.28
Number of Ratings
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3 STARS
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Author

Lauren James
Lauren James
Author · 14 books

**I don't respond to messages on here - email me at laurenjamesauthor[at]gmail[dot]com instead*** Lauren James is the Carnegie-longlisted British author of many Young Adult novels, including Green Rising, The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe. She is a RLF Royal Fellow at Aston University and the story consultant on Netflix’s Heartstopper (Seasons 2 and 3). Lauren is the founder of the Climate Fiction Writers League, and member of the Society of Authors’ Sustainability Committee. She works as a consultant on climate storytelling for museums, production companies, major brands and publishers, with a focus on optimism and hope. She runs a Queer Writers group in Coventry. Her books have sold over two hundred thousand copies worldwide in seven languages. The Quiet at the End of the World was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and STEAM Children’s Book Award. Her other novels include The Next Together series, the dyslexia-friendly novella series The Watchmaker and the Duke and serialised online novel An Unauthorised Fan Treatise. Her writing has been described as ‘gripping romantic sci-fi’ by the Wall Street Journal and ‘a strange, witty, compulsively unpredictable read which blows most of its new YA-suspense brethren out of the water’ by Entertainment Weekly. She was born in 1992, and has a Masters degree from the University of Nottingham, where she studied Chemistry and Physics. She has taught creative writing for Coventry University, WriteMentor, and Writing West Midlands. Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

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