When We Wake by Karen Healey

Read by Francesca Emms.

"My name is Tegan Oglietti, and on the last day of my first lifetime, I was so, so happy."

Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027 – she’s happiest when playing the guitar, she’s falling in love for the first time, and she’s joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the world: environmental collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice.

But on what should have been the best day of Tegan’s life, she dies–and wakes up a hundred years in the future, locked in a government facility with no idea what happened.

Tegan is the first government guinea pig to be cryonically frozen and successfully revived, which makes her an instant celebrity–even though all she wants to do is try to rebuild some semblance of a normal life. But the future isn’t all she hoped it would be, and when appalling secrets come to light, Tegan must make a choice: Does she keep her head down and survive, or fight for a better future?

Adapted for RNZ by Owen Scott.

  • When We Wake - Part 1

    11 Jul 2016

    Sixteen year old Tegan is having a perfect day- until she is accidentally killed by a sniper. Audio

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  • When We Wake - Part 2

    12 Jul 2016

    Tegan wakes in a laboratory of some sort. It's 100 years since she died. She is confused and attempts to escape. Audio

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  • When We Wake - Part 3

    13 Jul 2016

    Tegan is allowed, under strict conditions, to leave the compound and live with Doctor Marie Carmen. Audio

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  • When We Wake - Part 4

    14 Jul 2016

    Tegan makes a friend, Bethari. This friendship helps her through her first, very embarrassing, day at school. Audio

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  • When We Wake - Part 5

    15 Jul 2016

    Tegan realises she has a lot to learn to help negotiate her way in her second life in a very changed world. Audio

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  • When We Wake - Part 6

    18 Jul 2016

    Things don't seem quite right to Tegan - someone is not telling her the truth. So she decides to look into Project New Beginning. Audio

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  • When We Wake - Part 7

    19 Jul 2016

    Tegan and Bethari enlist the help of whizz-kid Joph to help them with their investigations. Audio

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  • When We Wake - Part 8

    20 Jul 2016

    Tegan agrees to do a big media interview but how she handles herself in the interview requires intense preparation and rehearsal. Will she get it right? Audio

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  • When We Wake - Part 9

    21 Jul 2016

    The more Tegan uncovers the more confusing it seems. But she knows she must keep digging. Audio

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  • When We Wake - Part 10

    22 Jul 2016

    Teagan and Abdi are captured by a fundamentalist group called The Inheritors of the Earth. Audio

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  • When We Wake - Part 11

    25 Jul 2016

    Teagan nad Abdi hatch a plan to escape from The Inheritors of the Earth but the plan fails. They are determined to try again. Audio

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  • When We Wake - Part 12

    26 Jul 2016

    Teagan and Abdi steal a boat and make it back to the mainland. They are now determined to let the world know what's really happening - regardless of the cost. Audio

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Published by Little Brown Books for Young Readers 2013
ISBN  0316215007, 9780316215008

About the author

Karen Healey writes books about tough girls with brains and interesting boys with secrets. She likes nail art, superheroes, and musical soundtracks. She technically lives in New Zealand, but really lives on the Internet.

Her previous books include the Aurealis winner and William C. Morris Debut Award finalist Guardian of the Dead and The Shattering.