Josh Silver

We are in an epidemic. An epidemic of unhappiness.  Friends, here is the good news: HappyHead has the answer.  When Seb is offered a place on a radical retreat designed to solve the national crisis of teenage unhappiness, he is determined to change how people see him and make his parents proud. But as he finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Finn, Seb starts to question the true nature of the challenges they must undergo. The deeper into the programme the boys get, the more disturbing the assessments become, until it’s clear there may be no escape...

Friends. Welcome to Elmhallow. Seb, along with a select group of participants, finds himself washed up on an isolated island called Elmhallow, under the guardianship of a mysterious couple. As the experiment steps up another level, Seb is forced to team up with Eleanor once more.But where is Finn? And what does HappyHead have in store for them next?

Estamos en medio de una epidemia. Una epidemia de infelicidad. Pero tenemos buenas HappyHead es la respuesta. Seb ha ido unos días a un lugar muy especial con otra gente de su edad. En principio, se trata de un novedoso retiro diseñado para resolver la ola de infelicidad que se ha extendido entre los jóvenes. Seb está decidido a cambiar cómo le ve la gente y a hacer que sus padres se sientan orgullosos de él. Pero nada más llegar, empieza a cuestionarse el auténtico motivo por el que se llevan a cabo las pruebas extremas que le obligan a superar. Junto con el enigmático Finn, un chico por el que empieza a sentir una fuerte atracción, Seb ve que el programa se vuelve más siniestro a medida que avanza… y puede que nadie consiga salir de allí con vida. Una lectura perfecta para fans de Al final mueren los dos y El juego del calamar, que además ha vendido los derechos para su adaptación a pelí la producirá el actor Taron Egerton.

Seventeen-year-old Eli has been in a near-fatal car crash. As the anniversary looms, his therapist and family struggle to help him deal with the fall out. The accident has left him emotionally numb, with no memory of the months following the crash. Desperate to feel something again, Eli winds up at an underground club called Traumaland. But this is no ordinary nightclub. Here he joins crowds of other emotionally numb people, all seeking to experience a new thrill by entering virtual reality simulations of nightmarish scenarios through the points of view of various characters. When he enters the story of a boy called Jack, he discovers a darker truth to the club. A truth that sets Eli on a dangerous journey to find the source of his own trauma.