2021 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Kathryn Barker's Waking Romeo is a spectacularly genre-bending retelling of Romeo & Juliet asking the big questions about true love, fate, and time travel
Year: 2083. Location: London. Mission: Wake Romeo.
It’s the end of the world. Literally. Time travel is possible, but only forward. And only a handful of families choose to remain in the “now,” living off of the scraps left behind.
Among them are eighteen-year-old Juliet and the love of her life, Romeo. But things are far from rosy for Jules. Romeo lies in a coma and Jules is estranged from her friends and family, dealing with the very real fallout of their wild romance.
Then a mysterious time traveler, Ellis, impossibly arrives from the future with a mission that makes Juliet question everything she knows about life and love.
Can Jules wake Romeo—and rewrite her future?
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Year: 2083. Location: London. Mission: Wake Romeo.
It’s the end of the world. Literally. Time travel is possible, but only forward. And only a handful of families choose to remain in the “now,” living off of the scraps left behind.
Among them are eighteen-year-old Juliet and the love of her life, Romeo. But things are far from rosy for Jules. Romeo lies in a coma and Jules is estranged from her friends and family, dealing with the very real fallout of their wild romance.
Then a mysterious time traveler, Ellis, impossibly arrives from the future with a mission that makes Juliet question everything she knows about life and love.
Can Jules wake Romeo—and rewrite her future?
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Praise for this book
"The most beautiful, moving, and rigorously plotted time-travel novel I have ever read." - Justine Larbalestier
"Original, ambitious, powerful. Barker's ability to challenge the boundaries of genre and find light in the darkness is a gift." - Melina Marchetta
"A genre-bending masterpiece that effortlessly juggles classic literature, existentialism, time travel, and dystopia--with action and feels. I freaking loved every minute." - Lili Wilkinson
"Original, ambitious, powerful. Barker's ability to challenge the boundaries of genre and find light in the darkness is a gift." - Melina Marchetta
"A genre-bending masterpiece that effortlessly juggles classic literature, existentialism, time travel, and dystopia--with action and feels. I freaking loved every minute." - Lili Wilkinson
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