This is a pacy, bloodthirsty, hugely entertaining teen zombie novel with an unconventional but tender love story at its heart.

From the ruins of a cataclysmic ice-age a new society has emerged, based on Victorian customs.

Nora Dearly, a feisty teenage girl and apparent orphan, leaves her exclusive boarding school for the holidays to return home - only to be dragged into the night by the living dead.

Luckily for her, this particular crack unit of zombies are good guys - sent to protect her from the real nasties roaming the countryside and zeroing in on major cities to swell their ranks.

Nora must find a way to defeat the evil undead with help from Bram, a noble, sweet and surprisingly hot zombie boy for whom she starts to fall...