Haley and Ben live with their mother. But their dad has good reason to believe there's a new, much deadlier pandemic coming. He's determined to get them to the safety of his lockdown hideaway. NOW. The only problem is, there is no way their mother will go along with this plan.
Kidnapped by their father, they have no contact with the outside world. Can they survive? Will they save their mother? This is one teenage girl's survival guide for negotiating the collapse of everything she knows - including her family and sanity.
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I'm still alive, and if you're reading this then that means you're alive too. MY SURVIVAL GUIDE
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(@SarabandBooks, 1 March 2021, ebook, 384 pages, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @BorrowBox)
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I really enjoyed How to Survive Everything. I enjoyed the fact it's written almost like a survival guide for people in the cusp of a pandemic that's wiping out the world. This is a COVID-19 lockdown novel but it's also not really. Haley is a great central character, feisty, opinionated and wise beyond her years. I had no idea where the book was going to go. Is her father right and the pandemic is here and will wipe us out? Is her mother right and is this one of his delusions? He escaped a psychiatric ward after all and his fellow preppers were fellow patients. I liked the fact I wasn't sure what to believe.
