If Tomorrow Doesn't Come

Avery Devlin Byrne is nineteen. In high school, she was a gifted student and also a talented football player. At Eaton College in New Hampshire, USA, she is now failing a class and about to be dropped from the football team.

On the morning of her nineteenth birthday, she makes the decision to take her own life. Before she can carry this decision through, news comes that an asteroid is going to hit the earth in seven days.  How will this cosmic catastrophe compare with her personal one? Will Avery choose to live when everyone is focused on their imminent death and the need to survive?

St. Jude’s novel is unrelentingly dark and so accurate in its portrayal of emotions that it can be a very painful read. Readers who finish the book will be rewarded by realising what is good about their own lives, having been pulled to the very lowest possible ebb by Avery. This could be a very cathartic experience, but readers should be aware that it contains many possibly uncomfortable elements.