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In Utero

by Chris Gooch

Friendship and dormant horrors in a ruined mall

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Friendship and dormant horrors in a ruined mall

Twelve years after a disastrous explosion, Hailey arrives at a holiday camp inside a dilapidated shopping mall, where she feels out of place among the other young people. Her connection with the older teen Jen becomes the human thread in a story that brings a coming-of-age experience into contact with alien horror and large-scale catastrophe. The setting—a repurposed mall marked by an earlier disaster—links everyday adolescent isolation with the threat of creatures that have remained dormant. The description also foregrounds mothers and daughters, the contrast between the monstrous and the mundane, and friendship under pressure.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in science-fiction graphic novels
  • Readers who enjoy coming-of-age stories with alien or monster horror
  • Readers drawn to stories about friendship, family relationships, and catastrophe

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Coming of ageFriendshipMothers and daughtersAlien horrorCatastrophe

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Book overview

Akira meets Aliens, and Annihilation meets Evangelion, in this coming-of-age monster tale from award-winning graphic novelist Chris Gooch.

Twelve years after a disastrous explosion, young Hailey is dropped off by her mum at a holiday camp in a dilapidated shopping mall. Alienated from the other kids, she connects with an eerie older teen named Jen... but soon dark horrors awaken, and the two new friends are caught up in a cataclysmic battle between two terrifying creatures who have been lying dormant all this time.

One of Australia's most acclaimed young graphic novelists, Chris Gooch expertly crafts a taut and intimate thriller about mothers and daughters, the monstrous and the mundane, and the power of friendship in the midst of catastrophe.
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