The storm is so bad that the crews of the orbiting solar arrays have to escape to planet below: the first landing from space in 600 years. A freak solar storm strikes the atmosphere, and the class is ordered to portal off-world for safety - no problem for a real child of military parents, but fatal for Jarra. Somehow, she has to keep the deception going. To make life more complicated, she finds herself falling in love with one of her classmates - a norm from another planet. When an ancient skyscraper collapses, burying another research team, Jarra's role in their rescue puts her in the spotlight. Jarra invents a fake background for herself - as a normal child of Military parents - and joins a class of norms that is on Earth to excavate the ruins of the old cities. She's an 'ape', a 'throwback', but this is one ape girl who won't give in. She can't travel to other worlds, but she can watch their vids, and she knows all the jokes they make. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents. While everyone else portals between worlds, 18-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. But can she prove to the norms that she's more than just an Earth Girl? 2788. Jarra is stuck on Earth while the rest of humanity portals around the universe. A sensational YA science fiction debut from an exciting new British author.
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