Sunny at the End of the World

Steph Bowe

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04 March 2025

General fiction (Children's&YA); Young Adult Galaxy

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In 2018, seventeen-year-old Sunny and Toby are on the run after zombies have destroyed most of the adults in their world. Cut to 2034 when Sunny is being held in an underground facility. What happened? Was it aliens, a conspiracy, a simulation, biological terrorism, a totalitarian takeover? And who can infiltrate the facility and release the surviving prisoners? The tables will be turned more than once in this thrilling and thought-provoking novel.

With Steph Bowe’s sad passing at the age of twenty-five, in 2020, we lost a truly wonderful author of three smart, funny YA novels. Her mother and sister discovered a manuscript on her computer: the book you have in your hands. Steph was always wise beyond her years, with the power to access other worlds. Somehow, in Sunny at the End of the World, she predicted an ‘outbreak’ much like the one that changed our world, after she was gone...

With her trademark humour, endearing characters and brilliant storytelling, Steph Bowe has left us a novel that helps to make sense of the rapidly changing world we live in.

By: Steph Bowe
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm,
ISBN: 9781922790767
ISBN 10: 1922790761
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 04 March 2025
Recommended Age: From 14 years
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Steph Bowe was born in Melbourne in 1994. Her first YA novel, Girl Saves Boy, published in 2010, was aptly described by Rebecca Stead as ‘full of the absolute truth—life is complicated’. Steph went on to publish two further YA novels, All This Could End, which was longlisted for the 2014 Gold Inky Award, and Night Swimming, a Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Notable Book in 2018, when it was also longlisted for a Sisters in Crime Davitt Award. Sadly, Steph passed away on 20 January 2020, after a courageous battle with a rare form of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. She was twenty-five. The manuscript of her posthumous novel, Sunny at the End of the World, was discovered on her computer by Steph’s mother and sister.

Reviews for Sunny at the End of the World

‘A tender, quirky love story full of charm [and] authenticity...’ * Sydney Morning Herald on Night Swimming * ‘A gentle, heartfelt tale...Bowe works quietly and perceptively through a range of believable situations.’ * Magpies on Night Swimming * 'A twisty road trip through a post-zombie apocalypse, Sunny At the End of the World is testament to Steph Bowe’s brio, wit and brilliance and the enormity of what readers of #loveozya have lost.’ * Rebecca Lim, author of Tiger Daughter * 'Brutal, tender and fierce, Sunny is ultimately a celebration of love and resilience, from a much-missed voice in Australian YA.’ * Lili Wilkinson, author of A Hunger of Thorns * ‘With classic Steph Bowe humour and undertow, this is a post zombie apocalypse to relish. I loved it.’ * Fiona Wood, author of How to Spell Catastrophe *