A high-stakes love and death romance set in a luxury resort by a multiple award-winning, Carnegie-shortlisted author: They Both Die at the End meets Romeo and Juliet meets The White Lotus.

DON’T FALL IN LOVE.

That’s the only rule.

In this world, everyone knows their death date. If you’re rich, you can check in to a resort to have the greatest final few weeks of your life, in five-star luxury.

Regan works at one of these resorts as a “Juliet”. Her next client is Jude, who has a week to live. Regan’s job is simple: make Jude feel as though he has found true love before he dies.

But when a fake romance starts to become something else, can they take on Fate together – before Jude's death date catches up with them?

Details

ISBN13: 9781529523041
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 352
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Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Publication City, Country: London, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.8(L)x2.6(W)240
Weight (gm): 240

Author Biography

Kelly McCaughrain's debut Flying Tips for Flightless Birds won an unprecedented hat-trick of awards at the 2019 Children's Books Ireland Awards, as well as the Northern Ireland Book Award. Her YA novel Little Bang is shortlisted for the 2025 Carnegie Award for Writing and the Children's Books Ireland Awards. Just Another Dead Boy is her first YA speculative romance. Kelly was Children's Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland 2019-2021. She lives in Belfast.

Reviews

With an unsettling premise in which the poor provide services to the wealthy so they can live out their final days, Another Dead Boy is a unique dystopian novel filled with existential dread and the importance of human connection. It encapsulates the inevitability of death and, thus, how people choose to live their lives to the fullest as the mortality clock ticks, while simultaneously serving as an allegory for the capitalisation of end-of-life care. -- Karen Darley * York Press *
“Kelly McCaughrain’s new YA speculative romance is an exciting bittersweet adventure, raising questions about privilege, mortality and sacrifice. […] I know it’ll go straight to young adult hearts” * Tia Fisher *
"Beautifully written, Just Another Dead Boy will rip your heart from your chest. A viciously sharp novel brimming with energy that teens will be clamouring for, I absolutely loved it." * Lucas Maxwell, school librarian and author of A Million TIny Missiles all at Once *
"Clever, moreish and so wonderfully relatable. One of the best YA books I've read in a very long time." * Jenny Ireland *
"[Kelly] has such a gift for murky emotional truths ... the pacing is incredible, it's a masterful combination of gripping and moving in turn." * Deirdre Sullivan *