Sent Twice

About this book

Nell Price, twenty-one, is a welder's apprentice from Grimsby who never wanted to leave Earth. She signed up for Lightline's Mars colony programme because her mum's medical debt left her no other way out. The transmitter was meant to scan her, send her, and destroy her. Then a North Sea storm cuts the power mid-scan. Now there are two of her. One is shivering on the transmission pad by the Humber. The other is waking under a red sky 140 million miles away. The law allows one person one life, and it gives them ninety days to decide which Nell keeps living. Every message between them takes twelve minutes to arrive and can't be taken back. As each Nell finds a reason to stay alive, both begin to wonder what Lightline isn't telling anyone. Only one of them will see day ninety-one.