Dreamland

Set in a future unsettlingly close to home, against a backdrop of soaring inequality and creeping political extremism, Rankin-Gee demonstrates, with cinematic pace and deep humanity, the enduring power of love and hope in a world spinning out of control.

'She vividly captures the balance between ferocity and vulnerability as the two girls explore their burgeoning desire; one minute they're greedy for each other, the next they're proceeding more gingerly. Theirs is a great first love, blazing bright and furious amid the poverty and the pain, the perfect counterweight that's needed to make the novel sing. Dreamland brings us face-to-face with much of what we're on the threshold of losing; nevertheless, it manages to convince us that its characters have everything still to live for.' Guardian

'A great coming-of-age story, and a warning.' Evening Standard

'This brutal read has moments of hope and love but also serves as a hideous warning to fight for what's right' Daily Mail

'Brilliantly bleak... this compelling novel is horribly plausible, chilling and feels like a warning that's come too late.' Daily Mirror

'Chance's life is filled with poverty, crime, drugs and fear - until she meets Franky, a girl unlike anyone else she knows. Their relationship brings light and love...' Daily Express

'Rankin-Gee's novel is a triumph, being as much a love letter to the heady ups and crashing lows of youthful entanglements as it is a paean to the former grandeur of its stark coastal setting. Read this now.' GQ

'A writer of a new time... A writer we will all want to read again and again.' Monique Roffey, author of the Costa Book of The Year The Mermaid of Black Con