Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is completely reimagined in this unforgettable zombie love story. ‘R’ is a zombie. He has no name, no memories, and no pulse, but he has dreams.Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R meets a girl. Her name is Julie and she is the opposite of everything he knows – warm and bright and very much alive, she is a blast of colour in a dreary grey landscape. For reasons he can’t understand, R chooses to save Julie instead of eating her, and a tense yet strangely tender relationship begins.This has never happened before. It breaks the rules and defies logic, but R is no longer content with life in the grave. He wants to breathe again, he wants to live, and Julie wants to help him.But their grim, rotting world won’t be changed without a fight... ‘The zombie novel with a heart' GuardianSHAKESPEARE RETOLD: Time travel. Zombies.Power-hungry media moguls. This is Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before: nine iconic plays transformed by the best novelists of our time, with covers by Michael Craig-Martin.