The Restoration

She has a dead girl's name and a seamless, perfect past. When they put her before the world, she will say her own words instead.

Part of The Wardenry — Book 3

Seven years on, the wall is failing and the regime is cornered. To buy its way back among the nations, it will stage the largest act of public mercy in its history — a reconciliation before the cameras of the world, with its flagship restored child at the very centre.

She has a dead girl's name and a seamless, perfect past. She has been the proof that the taking was kind. And when they put her before the world to say the words they wrote, she will say her own instead.

The Restoration is the concluding novel of the Wardenry, C.M. Swinney's dystopia of a sealed England and the children it overwrote. It brings a family broken across a border back to one place, one truth, and one question: what can restoration mean when the harm cannot be undone?

For readers of Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Paul Lynch. The trilogy is complete — begin with The Marches.

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