Now Hannah finds herself in a situation to which modern readers might be able to sympathise, but which the society she lives in cannot tolerate. Hannah has always tried to conform to her religious upbringing but, despite her efforts, she is not the model child. The protagonist, Hannah Payne, lives in a near future and not-too-implausible Christian Fundamentalist version of the USA.
‘When She Woke’ is American author Hillary Jordan’s second book but her first work that falls within the boundaries of SF. Not flushed, not sunburned, but the solid, declarative red of a stop sign.’ is a brave attempt. Hilary Jordan’s novel, ‘When She Woke’ first paragraph, ‘ When she woke, she was red.
Many novels search for that elusive hook in the first paragraph of George Orwell’s ‘1984’, ‘ It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen’ is pretty hard to beat.
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