Eve of Man: A Believable Dystopian YA

Published 2018

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Giovanna & Tom Fletcher

Giovanna is the  best-selling author of Billy & Me, as well as the producer of the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast which grew out of her non-fiction work of the same title.

Tom is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for McFly, the British pop rock band who took their name from the Back to the Future character Marty McFly.

Giovanna and Tom married in 2012 and have three children.

Eve of Man is the first in a trilogy written by the couple.

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WORLD CONTEXT

The global fertility rate has halved since 1950. In the mid-twentieth century the average woman had five children; today, the average is 2.5 children. This new average is less than the 2.7 births per woman required to replace current populations.1  Global fertility reports cite economic and societal changes as the driving factors in the shift to a lower fertility rate. Concerns about the future effects of climate change are also mentioned as a significant reason people choose to not have children.

It's not unreasonable to ask the question: what if climate change alters our genetic ability to reproduce?

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"On the first day no one really noticed. Perhaps there was a chuckle among the midwives at the sight of all those babies wrapped in blue blankets, not a pink one in sight. They wouldn't have known that this day of blue was only the beginning."

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SYNOPSIS

Thus begins Giovanna & Tom Fletcher's Eve of Man, a believable dystopian YA novel, in which the severe consequences of climate change introduces a species-ending fertility mutation: girls are no longer born.

Fifty years after the day of blue, a girl is born - Eve - and she is the ultimate reality celebrity as humanity's savior. Protected from the knowledge of the real world, Eve, at sixteen, is ready to assume her expected roll in renewing the human race.

Until she meets a boy.

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LEARNING CONNECTIONS

Climate Change
Human Reproduction
Genetics
Scientific Experimentation
Human Development
Hydrology
Engineering
Architecture
London, Geography
Great Britain, Geography
History of Resistance Movements

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Ages: 12 - 18; Grades: 7 - 12; 432 pages. Fascinating coming of age story in a believably messed-up world.

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1Max Roser (2020) - "Fertility Rate". Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate' [Online Resource]