The Self-Preservation Society, by Kate Harrison

Kate Harrison blogs at Wordgirl’s Work in Progress: Brit Chick Lit Diary. The Self-Preservation Society is available here.

When I was 13, I was in youth CND. I watched all the videos and read all the leaflets and worried that the planet would be destroyed by nuclear war. But I was young and optimistic and I never really believed I’d end up camping out for weeks under the stairs or watching, powerless, as my skin slowly fell off.

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