Spare and Found Parts - Softcover

"I'm fully prepared for Sarah's debut to be the big dystopian talking point of 2018 the way The Power was for 2017." --The Pool

"A unique, feminist coming-of-age novel, set in a fascinating post-technology world. Clever, beautifully written and compelling. I loved it." --Marian Keyes, author of This Charming Man

"Reads like a piece of mechanical poetry, an intricate machine with a fierce and fearless heartbeat." --V.E. Schwab, author of A Darker Shade of Magic

"A sweet and darkly hopeful tale of what it takes to build love." --Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of A Girl of Ink and Stars

"Sarah's gorgeous language draws you into her frighteningly believable near-future. This story is a dark and fierce thing, but one that also has much to say about hope and human ingenuity." --Joseph Fink, author of Welcome to Night Vale

"If you're looking for originality and lyrical writing, this is for you." --The Irish Independent, Best Children & YA Books of 2018

"Griffin's richly descriptive writing exquisitely evokes a dark, dank, dystopian world destroyed by humans' obsession with computers... Griffin's strength lies in her ability to perfectly convey the mood and tone of her Burton-esque world." --School Library Journal

"Part Pinocchio, part Frankenstein's monster, Nell's construction allows the story authentic depths of horror and moral disquiet. The author's unusual prose is lush enough to provide thorough world-building and spare enough to carry the main character's emotions without overstatement." --Horn Book Magazine

"Spare and Found Parts is a truly original creation: part magical realism, part steampunk, it s a coming-of-age allegory that examines technological progress and an individual's place in a stratified society." --The Guardian

"Griffin has a keen nose not just for the prescient but for the poetic, and her evocative prose makes Spare & Found Parts a sci-fi book with a keen literary bent. Young readers will easily relate to Nell's feelings of inadequacy, her determination to find (or build) a kindred and understanding soul, and her myriad insecurities." --The Irish Independent

"Questions of what does life mean, what is it like to the outsider, and what is a monster are all present and correct in Griffin s literary debut." --Geek Syndicate

"This is the kind of novel you can sink into, and one you'll resent having to climb back out of." --SciFi Now

"Spare and Found Parts is gorgeously written, making it a real pleasure to read." --One More Review

"Astonishingly, Spare and Found Parts, a compelling coming-of-age tale, is Sarah Maria Griffin s first novel." --The Fortean Times

"A punchy, compelling tale peopled with characters you'll share your hopes and dreams with." --SFX

Nell Crane has never held a boy's hand. In a city devastated by an epidemic, where survivors are all missing parts-an arm, a leg, an eye-Nell has always been an outsider. Her father is the famed scientist who created the biomechanical limbs that everyone now uses. But she's the only one with her machinery on the inside: her heart. Since the childhood operation, she has ticked. Like a clock, like a bomb. And as her community rebuilds, everyone is expected to contribute to the society's good... but how can Nell live up to her father's revolutionary ideas when she has none of her own? Then she finds a lost mannequin's hand while salvaging on the beach, and inspiration strikes. Can Nell build her own companion in a world that fears advanced technology? The deeper she sinks into this plan, the more she learns about her city-and her father, who is hiding secret experiments of his own.