Customer Reviews
A read you won't forget for a while! - By: F. Williams, 01 Aug 2008 
The first time I read this it was in my English class in school & I was not looking forward to it when my teacher informed me that we would be reading a science fiction novel. But, once we started reading it I found it thoroughly interesting & set my mind racing with what if questions??? But also, unfortunately we never finished it in school & I forgot about it for a while!
Then I was browsing a book store one day & saw it. I bought it, went home & started to read it instantly & I could not put it down. I found it to be very cleverly structured in the way that the three sections connected that also highlighted the evolution in a very subtle way. It was a truly moving read & I would read it again, & I'm sure I would cry al over again with this great story!
Bit disappointed - By: different opinion, 06 Jun 2008 
This book is a moderately interesting read but I was expecting more after reading alll the good reviews on amazon. Maybe if you did read this book when you were 11 you would enjoy reminiscing & revisiting. It has an over explained & slightly simplistic feel. Much preferred "A canticle for Leibowitz" which is of the same genre.
Seriously - this is fantastic - By: S. Gorton, 26 Nov 2007 I first read this book when I was around 11 years of age. This is the book that made me the Sci-FI reader that I am today.
What a fantastic novel: strong character development, believable scenarios, & a true taste of 'what if'.
I'll never forget the dog being shot - that has stayed with me forever.
Brilliant.
I have read this book fifteen or so times and shared it with countless children. - By: J. Webb, 11 Dec 2006 This is the book of alll books.
I first read the book at eleven years of age after it was recommended to me by my teacher. At times it is a little harrowing but the text is fast paced & the sadness quickly makes way for the excitment of the 'brave new world'.
I have read this book almost every year since - & now I am the teacher reading it to my class.
Because of a few instances of bad language & a few incidents that I believe are a little upsetting (that said, the children are exposed to far worse on TV & are completely unaffected,) I have an edited copy of my own - worn & battered - that I read to the children. They love the brown pages - an original print from 1985! .
The book is divided into three parts, the first at the time of the nuclear attack, the second eighteen or so years later, & the last, a generation after that. Each characater in the book is linked to another, though they do not know this.
The text is compelling & gripping like no other book I have read.I still cry at the end when it is made clear how events are linked!
Read it.
expire and dream - By: , 03 Feb 2006 this book is one of the best books ive ever read even though im only 13 i reallly enjoyed everything about it the part where the courage of veronica struggling to keep her family alive in the atomic holicoust the story is so life like & realistic i liked everything about the book even the parts that were despair & sadness it still erged me to read on the book was recomened by my teacher who thinks i have a future in writing & i belive this book has open my eyes & made me relise that this is the writing i want to do this auther is the best i have known & i hope she keeps writing coz her book is so inspiring i have recomending to absolutly everyone i know & a lot of it made me cry so thank-you louise you are an inspiration to us alll
