River has grown up in a society ruled by women, where concern for the planet comes first, and concern for community second. Sixty years earlier, a virus wiped out the majority of men on the planet, and now all male babies are taken away to live in sanctuaries, safe from the illness that would kill them, but which leaves the females untouched. In Virginia Bergin’s third YA novel, Who Runs The World? , we enter a reality set sideways from our own thanks to one significant difference. More worryingly, that person is an XY, a male, and River has never in her life met one before. But then she encounters a stranger who is seriously unwell. She’s been out in the woods, collecting cider apples, and is now on her way home without a care in the world. For aeronautical student River, it’s a day like any other.
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