When Terence's best friend goes off to Summer camp, he feels that he has nothing to do but spend time with Lucy, the weirdest girl in school. She paints butterflies and thinks she is a bat. Terence doesn't know how to deal with the bat thing, but when she gets into trouble, the bats stick together.
Sarah Withrow started writing her rollicking pre-/post-apocalyptic road trip novels in 2021 after retiring from a 17-year career as a Communications Officer.
From 1998 to 2007, she published four novels for young adults and a baby book. Her YA book Bat Summer, was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award and has been published in seven countries. Her short stories for adults have also appeared in several Canadian literary journals during this first kick at the can. (None of these stories have cell phones in them.)
Sarah lives in Kingston, Ontario with her luxury-sized cats Gloria and Melman. In addition to writing dystopian novels, she enjoys coffee, walking, yoga, cooking, TikTok and non-serious crafts.