The Blue Book of Nebo

Dylan was six when The End came. 

Now he is fourteen. Since the disaster that changed everything, Dylan and his mam have survived in their isolated hilltop house above the village of Nebo in north-west Wales, learning new skills and returning to old ways of living. They trap rabbits, tend the vegetable garden, and take turns caring for Dylan's little sister, Mona.

Dylan does not remember the time before they were alone, before the electricity went off for good, before the "normal" twenty-first century world disappeared.

His mother, Rowenna, has given him a simple task: to write in a journal, the book now in your hands. 

When, one night, Dylan asks his mam to write too--the story of The End and of the life before that he cannot remember--the Blue Book of Nebo is created.

"We've agreed not to read what the other has written, just in case," Dylan writes. "In case of what, I'm not sure."

Together, they take turns writing their histories, what they remember, and what they can piece together of the outside world--and the secrets they have kept from each other for the past eight years.

What brought The End?

What was life like before?

Where did Dylan's baby sister Mona come from?

Manon Steffan Ros is a Welsh novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, and she is half of the Welsh folk duo Blodau Gwylltion. She has written more than forty books in her native Welsh language. Her novel Llyfr Glas Nebo (which translates to The Blue Book of Nebo) won the Welsh Book of the Year in 2019, as well as the People's Choice Award and the prose medal at the 2018 National Eisteddfod. Her novels for children and young adults have won the Tir Na N'Og prize five times, and her novels Llyfr Glas Nebo and Blasu, as well as her play Two Faces/Dau Wyneb are on the Welsh curriculum for teaching in schools. Originally from Rhiwlas, a village in the mountains of north Wales, she now lives in Tywyn, a town by the ocean, with her family. Manon loves Liverpool Football Club, hiking, and cake.