The Word
| Title | The Word |
| Year for Search | 2021 |
| Authors | George, J[essica] L. |
| Tertiary Authors | George, J. L. |
| Pagination | 311 pp. |
| Date Published | 2021 |
| Publisher | New Welsh Rarebyte |
| Place Published | Aberystwyth, Wales |
| ISBN Number | 9781913830045 |
| Keywords | Female author, Welsh author |
| Annotation | In a Britain at war with Europe, four children who have the power to make people fear them are being experiment on in the Centre to make them into weapons of war. Disobedient children are simply killed. The children, learning what is being done to them, escape, and the novel follows them, some people who help them, and others trying to capture or eliminate them. |
| Additional Publishers | The first iteration was “The Word. Novella Extract.” New Welsh Reader, no. 122 (Winter 2019): 4-11. |
| Info Notes | The novella won the New Welsh Writing Awards 2019. Aberystwyth University Prize for a Dystopian Novella. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | Welsh female author |
| Full Text | 2021 George, J[essica] L. The Word. Aberystwyth, Wales: New Welsh Rarebyte. 311 pp. PSt The first iteration was “The Word. Novella Extract.” New Welsh Reader, no. 122 (Winter 2019): 4-11. The novella won the New Welsh Writing Awards 2019. Aberystwyth University Prize for a Dystopian Novella. In a Britain at war with Europe, four children who have the power to make people fear them are being experiment on in the Centre to make them into weapons of war. Disobedient children are simply killed. The children, learning what is being done to them, escape, and the novel follows them, some people who help them, and others trying to capture or eliminate them. Welsh female author. |
