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FERTILE GROUND

Sally Grey

ISBN 978-1-915853-95-0

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Publication: 25 JANUARY 2024
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ISBN: 9781915853950
Price: £9.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 198 x 129 mm
Extent: 300 pp
Thema: FH Thriller

Author location: Newcastle

• A suspense novel set in the near future, where
overpopulation has become a serious problem and
an extremist movement against pregnancy is
growing.
• Follows Clementine Finch, a young woman facing
her own fertility struggles, who moves back to her
family home in Yorkshire where she uncovers a
family secret that has devastating, far-reaching
effects on society.
• The debut novel by a Newcastle-based young
author focusing on the issues of climate change
and the impact of overpopulation in the future.
Sally Grey completed her Masters in Creative Writing at Newcastle
University, graduating with a distinction. She lives and works in ‘Life advice: never unbury a body. Granted, better advice might
be don’t murder, but I guess technically I never
Newcastle, where she works as a content writer at a marketing did that. So I stand by my original statement.’
agency. Sally enjoys reading anything with a mysterious or sinister
undertone, a love which inspires her own writing. Her debut novel Clementine Finch’s life just became complicated. Struggling with
Fertile Ground began as a dissertation submission for her MA, before infertility in a society threatened by overpopulation, Clem returns
growing into a longer piece. to her childhood home to mourn the sudden death of her parents.
Freedom from the extremist movement against pregnancy –
#stopoverpopulation – is a welcome bonus. Reconnecting with
figures from her past and chatting to the crows in her garden,
Clem spends the winter months tending to her
mother’s strangely thriving vegetable patch.

But when her troubled brother Billy arrives, paranoid about the
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Orders: Troubador Publishing Presenting a frighteningly believable version of our future, Fertile
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potential to affect the future of every life she cares about – and
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