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Dec 24, 2025 6:31 AM

Author:Emily McKay

The Farm

A powerful, unique and compelling novel about twin sisters and their fight for survival in a world on the brink of chaos, The Farm by Emily McKay is as addictive as The Hunger Games and The Passage.

For Lily and her twin sister Mel there is only the Farm . . .

It's a prison, a blood bank, a death camp - where fear and paranoia rule. But it's also home, of sorts. Because beyond the electric fence awaits a fate much, much worse.

But Lily has a plan.

She and Mel are going to escape - into the ravaged land outside, a place of freedom and chaos and horrors. Except Lily hasn't reckoned on two things: first, her sister's ability to control the horrors; and, secondly, on those out there who desperately want to find and control Mel.

Mel's growing power might save the world, or utterly end it. But only Lily can protect Mel from what is to come . . .

The Farm takes you into a terrifying future where civilization has ended, and leaves you there - fearful, gasping and begging to escape.

"Equal parts Resident Evil and Hunger Games - and just as thrilling The Farm is a gripping dystopian tale that pits humans against humans in the race for survival in her remarkable and haunting world. I can't wait to sink my teeth into the next installment!" Chloe Neill

Emily McKay loves to read, shop, and geek out about movies. When she's not writing, she reads online gossip and bakes luscious desserts. She pretends that her weekly yoga practice balances out both of those things. She lives in central Texas with her family and her crazy pets. She also co-writes young adult as Ivy Adams.

Reviews

Equal parts Resident Evil and Hunger Games - and just as thrilling The Farm is a gripping dystopian tale that pits humans against humans in the race for survival in her remarkable and haunting world. McKay has spun a web of vampires, love, sacrifice, and survival readers won't want to escape. I can't wait to sink my teeth into the next installment!

—— Chloe Neill

There's a warmth and generosity of spirit that pervades the book and the characters and setting are well-drawn and involving.

—— Choice, Paperback Book of the Month, Nov 2010

An extraordinary work of timely and provocative themes . . . [Eggers is] a writer of the highest order

—— San Francisco Chronicle

A spare but moving elegy for the American century

—— Publishers Weekly

Evocative, dramatic and intense, this beautifully written - at times dark - tale brings a refreshing twist to this key historical time

—— Candis Magazine

I loved The Flower Reader. A magical and thrilling tale, set in the court of one of history's most beguiling queens, it has the pace and intrigue of a CJ Sansom mystery and the sensuous passon of Philippa Gregory's Tudor romances. A story of love and murder that has all the dark enchantment and dangerous beauty of deadly nightshade.

—— Fiona Mountain, author of CAVALIER QUEEN

Loupas channels Philippa Gregory with this 16th-century historical romance.

—— Sunday Herald

There is no one to match [Forster] for the way her assured,subtle and careful prose can detail the insecurities, torments and problems of what are, to all surface appearances, just nondescript, unremarkable and often half-lived lives

—— The Lady

Margaret Forster has a deft and idiosyncratic touch

—— Penelope Lively , Spectator

A story which becomes steadily more gripping

—— WI Magazine

A brilliantly uncomfortable read about the art of forgetfulness

—— Emma Hagestadt , Independent

Brilliant... You won't put this book down until its emotional end

—— Siraj Patel , Daily Express
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