Ink

TitleInk
Year for Search2017
AuthorsBroadway, Alice
Date Published2017
PublisherScholastic Children’s Books
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsEnglish author, Female author
Annotation

A religious dystopia in which the major events of a person’s life are inked on their skin, which is made into a book on their death. The book is given to the family if the person has lived a good life and publicly burned if judged to have not led a good life. First volume in a trilogy. The second volume, Spark. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2018, is a standard middle volume in which the protagonist searches for answers to the questions raised in the first volume. The third volume, Scar. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2019, pulls the various threads together.

Additional Publishers

U. S. ed. New York: Scholastic, 2018. 

Holding Institutions

Public

Author Note

Female author

Full Text

2017 Broadway, Alice. Ink. London: Scholastic Children’s Books. U. S. ed. New York: Scholastic, 2019. Public

A religious dystopia in which the major events of a person’s life are inked on their skin, which is made into a book on their death. The book is given to the family if the person has lived a good life and publicly burned if judged to have not led a good life. First volume in a trilogy. The second volume, Spark. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2018, is a standard middle volume in which the protagonist searches for answers to the questions raised in the first volume. The third volume, Scar. London: Scholastic Children’s Books, 2019, pulls the various threads together. Female author.