War Torn

by Heidi Thomas

Levendour has been locked in a bitter war with its neighbor to the south for over 100 years. In a nation so driven by battle, the government must sort its people into jobs at age sixteen. From soldier to farmer, young adults are assigned, trained, and spit back out into the world without once being asked if they want their assigned job. It's a system that's worked for generations.

That is, until one sixteen year old gets the assignment no one wants: "undecided." Terrified of the prospects of being an undecided, she steals two of her mother's horses and runs across the country towards freedom, flipping Levendour's government upside down.

262 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 17, 2014

About the author

Heidi Thomas is a playwright, television executive producer and screenwriter, whose credits include: the 2010 continuation of the popular series Upstairs Downstairs, and period piece Lilies (2007), alongside adaptions of Jennifer Worth's Call the Midwife, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, and a film version of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle.

She is married to actor Stephen McGann.

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