In the far future a young girl lives alone with a burden so terrible even she cannot call it to mind. She does not know her name, her age or why she is held by captors she never sees, but she does know that the city in which she lies imprisoned shelters the last remnants of humanity on a ravaged and desolate planet.After a desperate escape she flees to the barren wasteland, only to discover there a secret soincredible that it will change her life, and the destiny of her people, forever. The world is about to change, for even the unlikeliest hero and the smallest of deeds can shape the future in ways too far-reaching to imagine.Shortlisted for the Nemesis Publishing Debut Novel Competition 2011, Ammonia and the Gardener is the first of several novels by Alan Drury for teenagers and young adults.