Lifers by M.A. Griffin

Book of the Week: 9 October 2016

It is 2 a.m. and Preston is wandering down an ink-black street in Manchester looking for his friend Alice. She has recently disappeared and he is determined to find her. What he finds instead is a sinister scientific institute where they think they have discovered the answer to prison over-population. Something called the Kepler valve means that offenders can be ‘stored’ in a very small space. Those behind the scheme don’t seem to care what the conditions are like, or that those who are imprisoned are teenagers. What about Alice? Has she disappeared into this dreadful place? She has done nothing wrong. Preston means to get answers even if it means braving this nightmarish prison.

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M.A. Griffin has previously written Poison Boy under the name Fletcher Moss. Read an excerpt from Lifers on the publisher, Chicken House’s website and an interview with the author here.