![]() ![]() Then Levez adds a twist that is both unexpected, contemporary and satisfying. And here it comes in the form of the gorgeous Rufus. This would not be a teen novel without romance. ![]() However, the reader is in no doubt that Fran can be her own worst enemy, but it is also clear that determination and imagination are all important. Levez does not make the mistake of providing Fran with everything she needs survival is a harsh battle. And this island is as much of a character as Fran, a beguiling paradise – and a hostile battleground. Fran is a very recognisable teenager rebellious, intractable, unlikeable – but a survivor she is a girl determined to beat life at its own terms whether in the city or on a deserted tropical island. Here, Olivia Levez in her debut takes familiar ingredients but through the medium of her feisty, contemporary main protagonist gives them fresh vigour. The survival novel has a long history from Defoe to Morpurgo and Martel. She doesn’t get there instead, she is washed up on an island, the only survivor it seems when the plane crashes into the ocean. ![]() Then even he is taken away, and Fran finds herself on a plane heading for a survival boot camp in Indonesia. The only brightness in her life, her step-brother, Monkey. Cold as rock, hard as stone.’ This is how Fran armours herself against a world that in her eyes offers nothing but betrayal. ![]()
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