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March 26 Book Club Pick YA

Feb 2026

Sunny At the End of the World
Our Rating: (4/5)
Author: Bowe, Steph
Category: Children's, Teenage & educational
Book Format: paperback
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 9781922790767
RRP: 22.99
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Synopsis

A witty and moving YA tale of friendship, survival and acts of courage, told with humour and heart. When a zombie apocalypse destroys the world, Sunny must save what matters most-and discover that the zombies might not be the true enemy.         You're not going to like this part. I don't like this part. I don't know how I'm going to explain it to you, and have it make any sense.   In 2018, seventeen-year-old Sunny and Toby are on the run after zombies have destroyed most of the adults in their world. Cut to 2034 when Sunny is being held in an underground facility.   What happened? Was it aliens, a genocide, a video game, biological terrorism, a totalitarian takeover? And who can infiltrate the facility and release the surviving prisoners? The tables will be turned more than once in this thrilling and thought-provoking novel.   With Steph Bowe's sad passing at the age of twenty-five, in 2020, we lost a truly wonderful author of three smart, funny YA novels. Her mother and sister discovered a manuscript on her computer- the book you have in your hands. Steph was always wise beyond her years, with the power to access other worlds. Somehow, in Sunny at the End of the World, she predicted an 'outbreak' much like the one that changed our world, after she was gone...   With her trademark humour, endearing characters and brilliant storytelling, Steph Bowe has left us a novel that helps to make sense of the rapidly changing world we live in.  

Each month Good Reading for Young Adults features a book for our online book club. Our March 26 book selection is Sunny At The End Of The World by STEPH BOWE, a thrilling post-apocalyptic story.

So, get your book club friends together and get reading. And don’t forget to check out the teaching notes below.

 

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

steph-bowe-author.jpgSteph Bowe was born in Melbourne in 1994. Her first YA novel, Girl Saves Boy, published in 2010, was aptly described by Rebecca Stead as ‘full of the absolute truth – life is complicated’. Steph went on to publish two further YA novels, All This Could End, which was longlisted for the 2014 Gold Inky Award, and Night Swimming, a Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Notable Book in 2018, when it was also longlisted for a Sisters in Crime Davitt Award.

Sadly, Steph passed away on 20 January 2020, after a courageous battle with a rare form of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. She was 25. The manuscript of her posthumous novel, Sunny at the End of the World, was discovered on her computer by Steph’s mother and sister.

 

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