From the award-winning author of
The Wordsmith/The List

"Dad’s words were playing in my head but I couldn’t quite process them. The second dose will eradicate all human life. That’s what he’d said." 

A gripping high-concept speculative middle-grade novel from the award-winning author of The Wordsmith

Out 15th June

Nobody can ever know Aria’s secret: she has human DNA.

Raised on Planet Terros, Aria was taught to hate humans and their destructive ways.

But when she is sent to release a deadly virus and end the failed human experiment, Aria realises everything she thought she knew about Earth was a lie.

The mission goes wrong. And now dark forces from Aria’s past are out to destroy her.

Patricia Forde is from Galway, on the west coast of Ireland. Her first novel The Wordsmith was published to great critical acclaim in 2015. It has since been published in the United States, Australia, Denmark, Russia, Turkey and the Netherlands. It has won a White Raven Award from the International Youth Library, is an American Library Association Notable Book for Children in the United States, and was shortlisted for the Children’s Book of the Year Award in Ireland. In 2018 Patricia wrote Bumpfizzle the Best on Planet Earth, which was chosen as the Dublin UNESCO Citywide Read 2019.