Self/Less (#1)

Description

A world where self-expression is banned.A world where survival is everything.A girl who will be heard.Seventeen-year-old Teddy lives in the walled-in city Metropolis. Radical laws condemn all forms of self-expression and creativity, and the lives of the people are carefully constructed and controlled by the City Council: We watch because We care.When Teddy finds out the truth behind one of the City's biggest lies, she slips out into the darkness of the City after curfew.She is captured by a stranger and held prisoner in an old bomb shelter that lies beneath the City. Here, Teddy discovers that there is a world beneath Metropolis, a world where a growing web of clans are fighting to keep their humanity alive, and waiting for a leader to unite them and lead them back up into the light.

Promotion info

The explosive debut YA/crossover novel by author, musician, global sensation and outsider, AViVA.

Awards

Long-listed for Indie Book Awards Young Adult 2022 (Australia).

Author description

AViVA is a multidisciplinary, internationally successful artist, garnering more than 3 billion global streams on her music to date. Having always been a lover of stories and made-up worlds she has fed her passion for self-expression with a healthy lifestyle of creativity and writing. When not writing music or touring the world, AViVA can be found in her home library either nose deep in a good book, fingers busy writing at the keyboard or otherwise occupied in her art studio, sewing or making something else she's dreamt up.