Praise for The Girl Who Broke The Sea:
“An atmospheric, satisfying YA sci-fi thriller”
-Guardian
“A riveting debut”
-Waterstones
“An ominous, evocative science-fiction thriller”
-New Scientist
Find Me After
Where do you go when you're not quite gone?
After suffering an epileptic seizure, Kyle finds himself in a world that looks like ours but where nothing feels the same. This is the Stillness: an eerie, liminal alternative reality populated by those who are caught between life and death.
Here, he meets his real-world crush, Farah, who is also unconscious back home. But as they get to know each other in the Stillness, they must face the possibility of forgetting each other in the real world. The way back to life is fraught with danger, and time, for both of them, is running out.
The Girl Who Broke The Sea
After being kicked out of school for her destructive behaviour, troubled Lily agrees to an unusual fresh start: going with her mum to live on Deephaven, the world’s first experimental deep-sea mining rig and research station located at the bottom of the ocean.
Lily instantly regrets her decision: claustrophobic and isolated, it’s hardly her idea of home.
Turns out, Deephaven has problems of its own. The head scientist, they quickly learn, has disappeared - just as he was on the brink of a shocking discovery.
In the darkness of the deep, something is stirring… something dangerous.
And it’s calling out to Lily.
A mind-expanding thriller set in the ocean’s depths, a terrifying struggle for survival - and the story of one girl’s path to self-acceptance.
Nominated for the 2024 Yoto Carnegie Medal for writing
About Adam
Adam is a former physicist and former child who likes writing stories and building unlikely, poorly thought through gadgets with his sons. He grew up in a mining town in the Midlands, studied Physics at Birmingham university, and started his career as a physicist, building part of the Large Hadron Collider in CERN. He has also sold encyclopaedias in Chicago, worked for an investment bank, taught physics in Sudan, fitted emergency Wi-Fi in the refugee camps in Greece, and now works as an AI researcher at Google DeepMind.
He lives in Hertfordshire with his partner, two sons, and a dog named Rosie.
