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The perfect chic-lit, easy-breezy summer read.

This book has everything a girl could want.

There are few things as satisfying as spending a weekend tucked up in bed reading a great novel — a story you can’t put down for fear of breaking the spell and losing the vital connection you feel to its suddenly living, breathing characters.

In When She Woke by Hillary Jordan, we’re introduced to a world in which extremism and religious fundamentalism rule and our protagonist, Hannah Payne, has been sentenced to 16 years of “chroming” or skin colouring for the crime of having had an abortion.

As Hillary Jordan’s When She Woke opens, heroine Hannah Payne finds herself incarcerated in solitary confinement after an unusual punishment. It seems she has to wait 30 days before she is released — but, of course, there’s more to the sentence, and her story, than that…