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The Hope
- Author
- Paul E. Hardisty
- Narrator
- Taryn Ryan
- Publisher
- Aurora
- Publish Date
- 29 January 2026
- Run Time
- 13 hours 3 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Paul E. Hardisty
- Narrator
- Taryn Ryan
- Duration
- 13 hours 3 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 January 2026
- ISBN
- 9781399197984
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Aurora
Synopsis
The year is 2086. Climate collapse, famine and war have left the world in ruins. In the shadow of the Alpha-Omega regime - descendants of the super-rich architects of disaster - sixteen-year-old Boo Ashworth and her uncle risk everything to save what's left of human knowledge, hiding the last surviving books in a secret library beneath the streets of Hobart. But Boo has a secret of her own: an astonishing ability to memorise entire texts with perfect recall. When the library is discovered and destroyed, she's forced to flee - armed with nothing but the stories she carries in her mind, and a growing understanding of her family's true past. Hunted and alone, and with the help of some unlikely allies, she must fight to save her loved ones - and bring hope to a broken world.
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