Ways of Doomed

Ways of the Doomed – the passport to freedom is truth

At last, a YA speculative novel for a smarter generation …

The critically acclaimed author Moira McPartlin is back with a gripping new YA novel which explores the zeitgeist themes that really matter to young people today.

Praised by fellow YA author Christina Banach as “beautifully written with fully realized characters, vivid settings, and a clever and playful use of language”, Ways of the Doomed transports us to the radically altered society of 2089, an environmentally scarred landscape divided between the Privileged Few and the Native (Celtic) underclass.

Sorlie, a Privileged teenager, has his life torn apart when he is forced to leave behind everything he knows, ending up in the care of his ice-cold grandfather on a mysterious island penal colony. There, he discovers shocking secrets about experiments being conducted on the inmates and the truth behind his own family, as he searches for a future and where he belongs.

Ways of the Doomed is part dystopian thriller and part coming-of-age story, which intelligently addresses some of the big issues in British society – the widening wealth gap, climate change, civil liberties, the impact of genetic research, and our national and individual identity.

In short, it’s a page-turner with substance.

Author Moira McPartlin, whose first novel The Incomers was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award, says that Ways of the Doomed is the first book in the Sun Song Trilogy.