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Meet Ice Cream Star: the spirited fifteen-year-old heroine of this mind-poppingly inventive post-apocalyptic adventure story and parable of modern America

In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her people survive by scavenging in the detritus of an abandoned civilization. Theirs is a world of children – by the time they reach twenty, each of them will die from a disease they call posies. When her brother sickens, Ice Cream sets out on the trail of a cure, led by a stranger whose intentions remain unclear. It’s a quest that will lead her to love and heartbreak, to captivity and to a nation’s throne, and ultimately into a war that threatens to doom everyone she loves.

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If you enjoy reading these extracts you can download the full ebook, published by Chatto & Windus (part of Penguin Random House), from Apple now for just £2.99 at http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/the-country-of-ice-cream-star/id827871539?mt=11.

The hardback is published by Chatto & Windus on 19 June 2014 in the UK, across the Commonwealth and Europe, and published by Knopf in Canada in July 2014, and by Ecco (HarperCollins) in January 2015.All Rights Reserved

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