With him, he brings blasphemous notions that 'Longetivity' drugs are wrong, that the 'Authorities' are wrong, and that there should not be a world full of old people and no youths. Nor should any of the children she lives with at Grange Hall. It's the year 2140 and Anna shouldn't be alive. Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood and Aldous Huxley, but for teens. Peter claims that he knows her parents, and that he has come to rescue her, to take her to her home where she belongs. The first book in a YA trilogy set in a reproductively dystopian future. Her life as she knows it is thrown into turmoil when Peter, a new Surplus moves in. Dystopian young adult novels, such as the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, are becoming more and more popular among middle school and high school students. However, some people break the Declaration these children are classed as 'Surplus', and are sent to a Surplus Hall, where they are trained to be servants, and help repent for their parents' sins.Īnna is a Surplus who lives in Grange Hall, and is on her way to becoming a 'Valuable Asset'. Materials for The Declaration, the first novel in Gemma Malley's popular Declaration series for young adults.
Consequently, by taking these drugs, you have to sign the 'Declaration', which states that you aren't allowed to have a child, as the population would no longer be in balance. She edited several business magazines and contributed regularly to Company Magazine and the Sunday Telegraph before moving into the civil service in a senior communications role at Ofsted. The Declaration is a novel set in the future, where 'Longetivity' drugs have been invented, providing every human being with perfect health, and so essentially every human being can live for ever. The first book in a YA trilogy set in a reproductively dystopian future. Gemma Malley studied Philosophy at Reading University before working as a journalist.
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